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![]() ![]() ![]() Accompanied by Carroll's own exquisite drawings, this poetic recording of his season of loving observation is subdued by Carroll's dread of habitat destruction and nostalgia for a boyhood when “I entered waters that, if not alive themselves, were so filled with light and life that my binding with them was as much metaphysical as physical.” (Aug. would I ever want to come back?” He watches a thirsty turtle hatchling encountering water for the first time: he “extends his neck full length, immerses his head, closes his eyes” and drinks for 21 minutes. Trout Refelections Following the Water Year of the Turtle Self-Portrait With Turtles, A Memoir Swampwalker’s Journal David’s Sketchbook Handbound Book of Winter Buds Hand Bound Book of Winter Branches A Book of a Number of Hours Signed. At the sudden appearance of a red doe, he wonders, “to have those senses-would I trade my thinking, dreaming, imagining mind for them for one full day. Carroll Brief Biography Laurette Carroll Biography Sean Carroll Biography Books. ) follows the inhabitants of his local New Hampshire wetlands through a season of turtle life from March thaw, when the turtles wake from hibernation, to November, when ice puts them back to sleep, along the way celebrating such personal “holy days” as “the Return of the Red-winged Blackbird.” Wearing camouflage and waders, he meets wildlife on its own terms. In this sensuous nature journal, MacArthur “genius” award winner Carroll ( The Year of the Turtle ![]() ![]() ![]() She covered the build-up to the Second World War for Collier’s, travelling in France, England, Czechoslovakia, Finland and the Far East. As a partisan journalist she always disdained ‘all that objectivity shit’ and, in her support of the Republican cause, let atrocities committed by that side go unreported. Gellhorn made her mark by writing about the effect of war on the lives of ordinary people. In 1937 she reported on the Spanish Civil War for The New Yorker and the liberal weekly magazine, Collier’s. Soon afterwards she published a book of short stories based on these experiences – The Trouble I’ve Seen (1936) – and continued to write fiction alongside her journalism throughout her career. Using a clear and simple style, Gellhorn expressed fury at the treatment of the poor, weak and dispossessed, and worked with the photographer Dorothea Lange to document the effects of the Depression. She moved to Paris for two years in the early 1930s to pursue her dream of becoming a foreign correspondent, but it was her coverage of the American Great Depression in 1934 that launched her career. ![]() ![]() Martha Gellhorn was born in Missouri, United States, but travelled extensively throughout her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Your flower journey has been a long and winding one. I thought it would be fun to have Steve share a little more about his flower farm, the sunflowers he’s been breeding, and his upcoming seed sale on April 1, 2023. ![]() Steve is one of the kindest, most generous people I know and it has been such an honor to get to play a small part in his flower journey. And during the winter months, he shares a lot of really interesting videos about how he utilizes these magnificent birds of prey to combat pests, such as rabbits, on his farm. In addition to being a flower farmer and sunflower breeder, Steve is also a master falconer. After getting to experience Steve’s beautiful creations, it became clear that he was really onto something and we encouraged him to follow the trail so that he could one day release his beauties out into the world. Two short weeks later Steve Kaufer flew out to the farm to meet us and we ended up planting a huge field of his amazing sunflowers to trial here in our climate. ![]() His sunflowers were like nothing I had ever seen before and I immediately picked up the phone. A few years ago we got an email out of the blue from a flower farmer in Wisconsin who sent a picture of some sunflowers he had been breeding and wanted to see if we might be interested in offering them. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book explicitly notes that having made war on the ground man would now fill the skies with death, and that all precious things were in danger of being lost, like the lost histories of Rome ("Lost books of Livy"). One such town, Zhongdian, has now officially renamed itself as Shangri La (Chinese: Xianggelila) because of its claim to be the inspiration for the novel. The remote communities he visited, such as Muli, show many similarities to the fictional Shangri-La. It is said to have been inspired at least in part by accounts of travels in Tibetan borderlands, published in the National Geographic by the explorer and botanist Joseph Rock. Among the book's themes is an allusion to the possibility of another cataclysmic world war brewing, as indeed it was at the time. Hugh Conway, a veteran member of the British diplomatic service, finds inner peace, love, and a sense of purpose in Shangri-La, whose inhabitants enjoy unheard-of longevity. ![]() It is best remembered as the origin of Shangri-La, a fictional utopian lamasery high in the mountains of Tibet. Lost Horizon is a 1933 novel by English writer James Hilton. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you have a desire to make a certain amount of money, that money, and the way for you to make it, already exists.Īyn Rand: Money is only a tool. By embracing money and getting into the flow, you open yourself up to the abundance that is trying to reach you this very moment." ![]() What it does is put you on a hunger strike by cutting you off from that which you need not only to survive, but to thrive. "When you (consciously or unconsciously) resent money or cling to your limiting beliefs about money or refuse to participate in making money, it does not serve you, it does not make you more noble, it does not help you or anyone else. If you believe money is evil and/or difficult to make, you will remain poor. Because money gives you freedom and options and I really love freedom and options. ![]() "I’ve been broke and sad, rich and sad, broke and happy, rich and happy, and I’ll take the rich version over the broke version all day long. RICH : Able to afford all the things and experiences required to fully experience your most authentic life.Ī healthy desire for wealth is not greed, it’s a desire for life. Refusing to give ourselves permission to get rich is one of the biggest obstacles to making lots of money. ![]() ![]() After a week of honing our language skills, Rocky and I are ready to start having real conversations. ![]() Indeed, Grace quickly builds a workable level of rapport with his alien counterpart: But PHM is like The Martian in that it's about solving problems realistically. From my nerd basement throne, it feels like the softer sciences of linguistics and anthropology (or perhaps xenolinguistics and xenoanthropology) don't get the same stage time as their more STEM-y counterparts like physics and relativity. I get it- that's how storytelling works. I don't want to sound like a bitter basement-dwelling critic throwing shade at a bestselling science fiction author. To wit: Rocky and Grace can communicate well with each other because it serves the story, and if they couldn't, the book would be shorter and less interesting. ![]() ![]() PHM's otherwise solid commitment to science leans a bit here on what we might call the "anthropic principle of science fiction," after the more well-known general anthropic principle. (Ars Technica may earn compensation for sales from links on this post through affiliate programs.)īut the relative ease with which Grace and Rocky understand each other got me thinking about the real-world issues that might arise when two beings from vastly different evolutionary backgrounds try to communicate. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is done through an analysis of the novel's contemporary reception in rural and urban America, as well as a critique of protagonist Carol Kennicott and her problematic urban pretensions. Therefore, this paper poses the argument that Main Street, rather than attacking small-town America, is as readily a critique of urban culture in 1920s America. However, it is my contention that Lewis never meant for his work to be seen as a criticism of rural America, but American provincialism as a whole, found readily in both urban and rural communities. Situated in the fictional small-town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, popular readings of the novel came to view Lewis' work as a criticism of rural America. "Sinclair Lewis' hugely successful novel Main Street became a benchmark work that highlighted the urban and rural divide of 1920s America. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In her professorial guise, she's written a New York Times op-ed defending romance, as well as articles published everywhere from women's magazines such as More to writers' journals such as the Romance Writers' Report. Her "double life" is a source of fascination to the media and her readers. Currently she is an associate professor and head of the Creative Writing program at Fordham University in New York City. ![]() from Yale and eventually became a Shakespeare professor, publishing an academic book with Oxford University Press. A reviewer from USA Today wrote of Eloisa's very first book that she "found herself devouring the book like a dieter with a Hershey bar" later People Magazine raved that "romance writing does not get much better than this." Her novels have repeatedly received starred reviews from Publishers' Weekly and Library Journal and regularly appear on the best-seller lists.Īfter graduating from Harvard University, Eloisa got an M.Phil. Her novels have been published to great acclaim. New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James writes historical romances for HarperCollins Publishers. ![]() ![]() Regarded as one of the founders of early twentieth century modernism, Joyce redefined and re-imagined the possibilities of language, and remains a major literary influence.ĭubliner Aidan Gillen has won three Irish Film and Television Awards and has been nominated for a BAFTA, a Tony and a British Independent Film Award. ![]() The Dead uses scrupulous deadpan realism to present the story of a pedantic professor who experiences an intensely personal and brutal epiphany at his aunts’ annual Christmas party. The Dead is the last of fifteen stories that make up Dubliners, Joyce’s searing exploration of life in Dublin. This January Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones, The Wire) brings James Joyce’s captivating short story The Dead to life alongside beautiful live music accompaniment by composer and pianist Feargal Murray (The Rape of Lucrece, Dublin Theatre Festival 2013). ![]() “ His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.” Presented by Dublin Theatre Festival | With music by Feargal Murray ![]() |