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Category Archives: USA
Joy is not made to be a crumb
Don’t Hesitate by Mary Oliver If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. … Continue reading
How Random Is This
New York City’s amazing Metropolitan Museum of Art is probably my favorite museum in the world and I’ve been to hundreds. It’s also one of the most visited museums in the world with nearly 2 million guests annually. The Met … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Asia, Europe, History, Middle East, Museums, USA
Tagged Met, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NYC
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Tourism and the Climate Crisis
The U.S. state of Florida is a tourist mecca and is at the same time at the center of the global climate emergency. To highlight the growing emergency, the Florida nonprofit The CLEO Institute staged a dramatic gift shop in … Continue reading
It’s That Time of the Year Again
Forty years after Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 to raise awareness about censorship, the issue has taken on new importance across the country. This year more than ever it’s essential that we raise awareness about book banning and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Freedom of Speech, Libraries, USA
Tagged book banning, censorship, Reading
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Meow Wolf
The Santa Fe, New Mexico-based cutting edge arts group known as Meow Wolf has launched an exciting project in Denver, Colorado called the Covergence Station. Squeezed into a pizza slice-shaped space between urban highways, the colorful attraction is a series of immersive installations … Continue reading
The only lasting truth is change.
When she was nine years old, Octavia Butler saw a sci-fi film called “Devil Girl From Mars” and thought to herself: “I can write a better story than that.” She went on to become the first widely recognized Black female … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Film, movies, USA, Writing
Tagged Octavia Butler, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction and Fantasy
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Peripherals
The news that a streaming TV network has announced the upcoming release of a series based on a novel rarely rouses much interest here at Travel Between The Pages World HQ, however the drop of a teaser-trailer for The Peripheral, … Continue reading
Sleeping in the Forest
Sleeping in the Forest I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the riverbed, nothing between me … Continue reading
Going Supersonic
I never had the opportunity to fly on the supersonic Concorde airliner, but I’m hoping to get a chance to travel on Boom Supersonic’s new Overture jet when the plane begins carrying passengers in a few years. While it’s not … Continue reading
Posted in Air Travel, Europe, Tech, Tourism, USA
Tagged Air Lines, Air Travel, Concorde, London, United
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The Ballad of Holland Island
I recently had the opportunity to road trip along the Mid-Atlantic coast of the U.S. in the states of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. The highlight was a visit to Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, on Assateague Island, which has stunning beaches, … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Film, History, Music, USA
Tagged Chesapeake Bay, Climate Change, Maryland, Virginia
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