Where the call comes from, you couldn’t say. But the fervor with which the stuff of the earth itself drives you thumps in your chest all the same. You are attuned to the world’s hidden processes.
Sometimes what I study has become very normal to me, and then I have to find a succinct way to tell a room full of people that the Welsh believed a nation of their ancestors descended from a medieval prince lived in eighteenth-century America west of the Missouri, and probably had castles
My favourite stage of any right-aligned movement is when the circle of men that inevitably position themselves in leading roles get even the most surface-level coverage of their backgrounds and immediately go
"HERE WE GO THE MEDIA SMEARS AND LIES BEGIN" and it's just facts about their crimes
'A simple (perfect) life' - my spring landscape is finally finished! An apple orchard in bloom, old railway, sheep with their lambs and an allotment being prepared for growing :) Zoom in to see all the other tiny details too... I think this might be my favourite aerial embroidery I've ever done!
One of the most interesting observations Agatha Christie ever made is that there are 2 kinds of actors- the one who plays different characters every time and the one who plays himself as different characters every time. Sean Connery and Al Pacino are the poster boys for category 2