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No.272
November ending, a list:
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No.271
Back in October, visiting Greece, people said it was autumn there and I believed them but I was also not fooled. While away I read seven books and got…
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No.270
Drafting an overdue edition of ‘Root Catalog’, sitting cross-legged in a rocking chair (the first chair I bought for myself as an adult, carried in its…
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No.269
September ending, a list:
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Conference of Birds
On feathers that breathe and illustrated Persian manuscripts
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No.268
In the last couple of weeks we have, several times now, heard and therefore seen geese flying overhead—this confirms the suspicion that summer is over
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No.267
There are ways to feel, and ways to un-feel, and it occurs* to me that the internet might be, more or less, one giant experiment in un-feeling. What…
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No.266
Many of you will be familiar with this newsletter arriving on a Saturday afternoon and may therefore be surprised to find yourself instead receiving it…
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No.265
It has been a time. It has been a time because however prepared or unprepared you feel you might be for its inevitable passing time will find you…
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The Sometimes Newsletter
The Sometimes Newsletter
A dispatch from the desk of New York Times and internationally-bestselling author and illustrator Ella Frances Sanders, concerned primarily with paying close attention, the relationship between beauty and the mundane, and the things we fall in love with.
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Everything, Beautiful
A Guide to Finding Hidden Beauty in the World
Close Again
Eating the Sun
Small Musings on a Vast Universe
The Illustrated Book of Sayings
Curious Expressions from Around the World
Lost in Translation
An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World
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On Birds and Things Being Bearable
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I Never Learned to Dance Like This
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A Street Three Times
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Bird Flying, I’m Walking
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