Pen, Book and Garden: Notes from Linnesby

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On dreams, being devastated by stories, and imagining the future (part 2)
"Pather Panchali," "Dr. Zhivago," "The Buried Giant," "A Time for Everything," and more
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Maria (Linnesby essays)
Winters in Bolinas
In my memory, winter wasn’t a distinct season in Bolinas.
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Maria (Linnesby essays)
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Indulgence is not the same as care
Care is bigger. Care is what you give to someone who matters.
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Maria (Linnesby essays)
21
While Riding on a Train Going West
Diary of a trip from Massachusetts to California
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Maria (Linnesby essays)
18
Milosz in California
On a poet, exile, and being a serious person
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Maria (Linnesby essays)
53
People's lives
On two people who lived their own ways in small villages, decades and continents apart
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Maria (Linnesby essays)
22
Being here
On staying in and dropping out. Includes references to novels by Stig Claesson, Bodil Malmsten, and Claire-Louise Bennett.
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Maria (Linnesby essays)
55
Recommendations (updated)
Some other Substack publications I enjoy
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Maria (Linnesby essays)
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To live deliberately
On embodiment and abstraction. With references to H.D. Thoreau, W.H. Auden, E.M. Forster, Bodil Malmsten and Claire-Louise Bennett, among others.
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Maria (Linnesby essays)
46
Addendum to Bolinas Sunrises and Solstices
Memories of a hippie childhood
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Maria (Linnesby essays)
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Bolinas Sunrises and Solstices
Memories of a hippie childhood
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Maria (Linnesby essays)
30
The octopus
On generality and specificity (with some help from Wordsworth)
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Maria (Linnesby essays)
32
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