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Author Archives: Brian D. Butler
Week End Eve Ephemera
In much of the world, owning a lakeside home is desirable. But in the Dutch town of Loosdrecht, residents live within the lake itself, with houses on their own impossibly skinny islands. All I want is a little hut in … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Film, Maps, Netherlands, Photography, Vincent Van Gogh
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Entschuldigung, kein Ampelmännchen
Buried somewhere in a drawer in my house there’s a t-shirt with the image of an Ampelmann. For some reason I picked it up at a flea market in Berlin’s Mauerpark for €3. I’m not sure why I was so taken … Continue reading
A Floating Library That Delivers
I love a good library story and this one certainly delivers. Cutting through the white-capped waves of Japan’s Seto Inland Sea is a one-of-kind “floating library”. This is Hon no Mori-go (ほんのもり号) designed to provide children living on remote islands … Continue reading
I greet you from the other side
“I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.” ― Leonard Cohen What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human … Continue reading
Protect the Freedom to Read
The theme this year for Banned Books Week, which runs October 4-10 and is organized by the American Library Association, is “Let Books Be. Protect the Freedom to Read.” PEN America has reported on the worsening situations in public libraries … Continue reading
A Little Norway
Tilt-shift and timelapse photography seems to have gone out of fashion, but I still love a travel video done in the slightly unreal style. Lofoten is an archipelago and a traditional district in the county of Nordland, Norway. Lofoten has … Continue reading
To be great is to be misunderstood.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak … Continue reading
Creation Myth
Origin Myth Map is an interactive world map of the stories cultures have told about where the universe, Earth, and humanity came from. This is a fascination tool to explore the narratives that formed many of the world’s cultures and … Continue reading
Family Business
I have often been intrigued by stories about the oldest business, or restaurant, or hotel in a place that I’ve visited, and in fact have been in some that claimed the title. So, I fell down the rabbit hole of … Continue reading
