I too live in Dorset and some of the parts I have lived in began to resemble a theme park. The loss is also of ‘loose ties’ those little chats and acknowledgments on the street with people we know by sight and see at the post office or know from the local shop - they aren’t friends as such, just familiar around town - research shows people who have more loose ties have better mental health generally. A friend of mine is involved with the friends of St Candida in Whitchurch Canonicorum and they are organising a small St Wite festival for the 1st of June, I thought you would like to know 😊
Hi Jules, I agree. I also plan to be at St Wite's on her feast day 1st June (Dorset Day). Please do send me a link to what your friends are planning. You can just press 'reply' to my newsletter and it will get to me. Thank you.
Your posts are a rich smorgasbord of ideas. I heartily agree about second homes. Symptom and consequence of the gross inequity of our society and the sickness of ‘every man for himself.’
I just love this. Especially close to mind and heart this morning is the 2nd home and vacation rental surge. I am reading 'Remembering Peasants' by Patrick Joyce. He describes abandoned peasant homes becoming sites of affluent leisure, and the older generation watching the tragedy unfold. Thank you for writing.
Thank you for this morning read. May I suggest ’Wings of Desire’ as one place to start looking again at film classics. And for a beautiful new film I think you would enjoy, try the Latvian animation, ‘Flow’. Not a word in it! For getting a sweet introduction to living a full yet simple life in urban Japan, see ‘Perfect Days’.
I too live in Dorset and some of the parts I have lived in began to resemble a theme park. The loss is also of ‘loose ties’ those little chats and acknowledgments on the street with people we know by sight and see at the post office or know from the local shop - they aren’t friends as such, just familiar around town - research shows people who have more loose ties have better mental health generally. A friend of mine is involved with the friends of St Candida in Whitchurch Canonicorum and they are organising a small St Wite festival for the 1st of June, I thought you would like to know 😊
Hi Jules, I agree. I also plan to be at St Wite's on her feast day 1st June (Dorset Day). Please do send me a link to what your friends are planning. You can just press 'reply' to my newsletter and it will get to me. Thank you.
Love your description of AI - the left hemisphere of digital human culture. Confident despite being demonstrably wrong most of the time.
Your posts are a rich smorgasbord of ideas. I heartily agree about second homes. Symptom and consequence of the gross inequity of our society and the sickness of ‘every man for himself.’
I just love this. Especially close to mind and heart this morning is the 2nd home and vacation rental surge. I am reading 'Remembering Peasants' by Patrick Joyce. He describes abandoned peasant homes becoming sites of affluent leisure, and the older generation watching the tragedy unfold. Thank you for writing.
It's a cancer. But everyone's too polite to talk about it for fear of alienating their rich pals / overlords.
I will send you some choice quotes from the Peasants book. We have to start being honest in public! Yes, please and thank you.
Yes Caroline, community matters.
A moving picture suggestion, you might enjoy the film ‘my octopus teacher.’
Thank you for this morning read. May I suggest ’Wings of Desire’ as one place to start looking again at film classics. And for a beautiful new film I think you would enjoy, try the Latvian animation, ‘Flow’. Not a word in it! For getting a sweet introduction to living a full yet simple life in urban Japan, see ‘Perfect Days’.
I love Wings of Desire and plan to see Flow very soon.