Week 45-22 - Curiosities

ESSAYS

"What Hurricanes Taught Puerto Ricans About Feeding Themselves" By Moises Velasquez-Manoff
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/magazine/puerto-rico-farms-hurricanes.html
"As practiced in Puerto Rico, agroecology often involves polyculture, or growing different crops together; composting; limiting or eschewing synthetic fertilizers and pesticides; and an emphasis on improving rural life."

"Street Haunting: A London Adventure (1930)" by Virginia Woolf
http://s.spachman.tripod.com/Woolf/streethaunting.htm
How one turns an everyday ramble into a great adventure of the mind.
"That is true: to escape is the greatest of pleasures; street haunting in winter the greatest of adventures."

SONGS

"Your Rocky Spine" Great Lake Swimmers (Canada)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ6W_cq-zQ0

"Finans Isle" by Mairead Nesbitt (Ireland)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poalTB8CJGo

"Dans les Rues de Londres" by Mylène Farmer (France)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcw96_qqVBo

POETRY

The Moose" by Elizabeth Bishop (Canada)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48288/the-moose-56d22967e5820

"The Wrens Nest" by Robert Burns (Scotland)
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/the-wrens-nest/

ART

Lawren Harris (Canada)
Abstract Landscapes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawren_Harris

Smergelis Laimonas Jono (Lithuania)
Surrealist Painter
https://www.fineartandyou.com/2013/08/smergelis-laimonas-jono-lithuanian.html

Photography inspired by Virginia Woolf's Orlando
Mickalene Thomas (USA)
Mixed Media Artist
http://mickalenethomas.com/

ENVIRONMENT

‘It was like an apocalyptic movie’: 20 climate photographs that changed the world by Gabrielle Schwartz
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/05/20-climate-photographs-that-changed-the-world