July: Recommendations To Start Your Month
10 Useful and/or interesting things.
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Friends,
Here’s 10 Useful and/or interesting things that found me this past month.
Located in the northwestern corner of the Scottish Highlands, Gairloch is a coastal village of about 700 people that is known for its mountains, sea loch and rugged landscape. It is also the home of Two Lochs Radio, reportedly Britain’s smallest commercial radio station, run by volunteers. You can listen here.
On the topic of wonderful Scottish things, a bothy.
The most successful rewilding project in Europe took place less than an hour from where I now live. Knepp Castle Estate has been a family run dairy and agriculture farm since the 1200s, and found herself in financial despair in early 2000. Her owners (Isabella & Charlie) made a dramatic decision to rewild the entire farm despite intense pressure from the government and surrounding farms not to do so. The documentary of their rewilding journey is out now in UK cinemas. The trailer alone is magical.
Wilderness survival tips for women working in male-dominated fields.
Related: a coffee mug for women working in male-dominated fields.
A short daily meditation practise.
What makes you happy? Nick Cave on the joys of cold-water swimming.
« Some years ago, the winter after Arthur died, I was walking along an empty beach in Brighton and had the sudden impulse to jump into the sea. I was shocked to find that, upon entering the freezing water, I experienced a sudden, violent, radical rearrangement of my relationship with almost everything. I discovered that it was simply impossible to grieve in icy water. This revelation began my love affair with cold-water swimming.»
An Ordinary Beautiful Life - filmed in McGregor, South Africa, featuring Annie Norgarb.
Why is wellness so fucking annoying?
There is no single product on earth that will make you healthy that does not grow or eat from the ground.
There is also no powder, juice cleanse, ginger shot, or lifestyle gummy that will move the dial towards anything other than the growing mountain of plastic in the ocean. If it takes absolutely no work to consume, it will not save your life. Read that a few more times.
MABEL !!
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