Order arrived this week ftom @longbarrowpress.bsky.social and they are beautiful. Thank you. Can't wait to read.
Michelle Bailat-Jones
@mbailatj.bsky.social
novelist/translator/reader, here for the sharpened pencils, books & writing talk, for all things language and foliage, for all the shiny things & shadows. (Eng, Fr, 日本語, Ital) Rep'd by Simon Trewin. www.michellebailatjones.com
Du lac des Brenets à celui de Zurich, la sécheresse prolongée vide les plans d’eau et contraint certaines communes à rationner l’eau potable. L’Office fédéral de l’environnement maintient l’alerte maximale sur tout le territoire
La Suisse face à un assèchement sans précédent de ses lacs: «On se sent un peu seuls face à ce problème»
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This morning's surprise- sunbeam-over-the-table entry for the catalogue of shadows
I sleep and I unsleep. On the other side of me, beyond where I lie down, the silence of the house touches infinity. I hear time falling, drop by drop, and no falling drop is heard falling. Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
From nautical twilight to civil twilight to daylight, beside the window with a cup of coffee and pages and a sharpened pencil. And then the rest of the day begins.
Rain. Coffee in the garden w/ a leaky umbrella while the blind terrier patrols the lantern flowers and leggy tomatoes. The postwoman rolls up to the mailboxes on her electric scooter, waves, rolls away again. A crow lands in the dogwood. Swoops off to the roof ridge of the neighbor's barn.
This morning Luzern has moderate puddling in depressions ❤️
Michelle Bailat-Jones@mbailatj.bsky.social · 3w agoThe MeteoSuisse weather app invites people to post photos of their conditions. An infinite scroll of beauty, mystery, poetry from strangers all over the country.
I would like to renew the proposition to name hurricanes after politicians who deny climate change
The Silvaplana photos are always beautiful, I can't help but think it's one person, in a competition with another location, that is also always beautiful and posts at same time.
Michelle Bailat-Jones@mbailatj.bsky.social · 3w agoThe MeteoSuisse weather app invites people to post photos of their conditions. An infinite scroll of beauty, mystery, poetry from strangers all over the country.
Livestreaming. The corrupt children are delighting in their violent fantasies. It's appalling. I find it hard to fight the despair. One news item among hundreds.
The MeteoSuisse weather app invites people to post photos of their conditions. An infinite scroll of beauty, mystery, poetry from strangers all over the country.
Mild windstorm in the night. Bakery truck loading up in the dark across the street. The village librarian checks the book box before sunrise. On foot. Either taking or dropping books off.
Overton on Berger’s letters: „At a moment like this, there seemed to be a value in letter-writing. Because it isn't going to be read immediately, the act of writing a letter reminds us that there will be a moment beyond this one. In an era of instaneity, it is a kind of promise, or an act of faith.“
So glad this speech is being circulated. There's more of it: "Turn what we know into what we do." news.un.org/en/story/202...
‘Turn what we know into what we do,’ Barbados PM Mottley urges world leaders at UN
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley called on world leaders on Thursday to turn knowledge into action, reform international institutions and ensure that new technologies and global wealth benefit ever...
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🦋 kris🌻⋆⋆⋆@eviebauer727.bsky.social · last mo.Mia Mottley Prime Minister of Barbados UN Speech 🇧🇧 The world needs more of this!
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumour of sadness and change. E. B. White, Charlotte's Web
Marguerite Duras on nighttime reading: “The darkness around you adds greatly to the absolute passion that develops between you and the book.”
Last night while teen at volleyball, I sat on the lake listening to Wendell Berry's book The Peace of Wild Things & knitted while watching swallows/bats. Exquisite - maybe cliché - quiet moment, with modern touches: my phone flashlight to see my hands, earbuds for the sound. Strange world.
Bookstore visit yesterday to buy a gift card for someone. I don't know how these got in my bag.
Nautical twilight toward civil dawn over the village. Dimanche matin. 音もなく
The first charting of synaesthetic visualisations, plate 4 from Francis Galton's Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development (1883). More on the site: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/synaesthesia-diagrams-1883
