beauty, discovery, moments
I found this somehow touching, the way the parent dolphins don’t overstretch their offspring. Also curious about the fact that the calves always stayed on the right side of the mother and in seeking a photo, it struck me that this appears to be a calf …...
beauty, discovery, moments
A magical description of ephemeral islands rising and sinking with time and tide. From Maxwell’s fine account of time spent on a Scottish island, anything but ephemeral. Sand bars as white as snow-drifts and jewelled with bright shells rise between the islands...
beauty, colour, discovery, enchantment, happiness, inspiration
A subtle portrayal of the enduring enchantment of sea shores, whether through the richness of their treasures or their simple liminality. I like the combination of a child and an adult response, though isn’t much of the charm due to the shore’s invitation...
beauty, colour, discovery, enchantment, happiness, moments
A blazingly limpid landscape on the island of Thera, plunging down to the sea, with flashes of passing birds and lizards over patterned stones and anchored plants. But there is a delicate order, too, imposed by tracery of asphodel and grape-hyacinth, purple mallow and...
beauty, discovery, freedom, moments
Golding took several decades to realize his dream of visiting Ithaca, and a few months to make his own odyssean journey there by way of Troy. Many of his descriptions of this and other Greek islands are intoxicating in their brightness and warmth, particularly as one...
freedom, moments, sharing
Those spectacular occasions when it all conspires in your favour, when the people, the place and the moment are perfect. And those ‘black, liquid, effortless birds’! The boat, too, ‘horse-like in her strength’.Send me descriptions of such...
happiness, moments, nuannaarpoq, sharing
A ringingly simple statement about happiness needing few props in the right place with the right person. A happy moment between Zorba and his friend and occasional boss. Feel free to complete the sentence, ‘How simple and frugal a thing is...
