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Transhumance Day is 30th September (opens the original)
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This is the third 30th September I’ve caught the local cows headed down from their summer pasture to their winter grounds (the term is transhumance). I heard them coming well before they passed by my house. They sound like a steel band approaching from more than a mile away. There aren’t many sounds at all in the valley so if it’s 30th September, there’s no mystery what’s going on.Subscribe and next year you might get video<form class="subscription-widget-subsc
I Confront My Negative Feelings About Farm Animals (opens the original)
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Did you know that likes and shares on the website increase Carpetblog’s visibility on this vile platform? No pressure, but we’re all slaves to the algorithm these days. You could do your part. No pressure OFC.Vicoforte Fiera is among my favorites. One of the biggest in Piemonte, it’s got about 600 exhibitors selling everything from housewares, to socks, to tools. It’s got a midway and carnies, which recall
Flea Market Peggy Guggenheim (opens the original)
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I have always viewed Peggy Guggenheim as my spirit animal. I have come to accept, however, that she enjoyed certain social and financial advantages I lack. I will probably never own a villa on the Grand Canal in Venice, filled with artists I discovered and nurtured, nor will I have a New York gallery that people still talk about more than 80 years after it closed.Artists are being replaced by AI slop and I’m underfunded, so I have to make my own path: trolling rural flea markets in Northern Ital
I Get It Now (opens the original)
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By most predictions Europe’s hottest summer ever comes to an end tomorrow. Temperatures will drop 12-15 degrees (F) to those more typical of mid-August. It may even rain for more than an hour once a week. It’s been too hot to do anything in daytime outside since late May and everything is crispy dry. The uncut1 grass snaps and cracks underfoot, and my daily footpaths through it are exposed raw earth.Like Carpetblog but can&
Death Comes to the Hamlet (opens the original)
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Eventually you reach an age, when faced with someone’s death, you know the gestures to make and the words to say to the people who need them. If you’re an adult person, it shouldn’t be difficult especially if it’s in your own language and culture.I like to draw on other cultures’ condolence phrases. “May her/his memory be a blessing” is exactly the right tone and I wish everyone said it. The Turkish “başınız sağ olsun” is literally “may your head be healthy” said to the grieving. Turkish is full
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