Matt Duckworth Underwater

Art, Book reviews, Ceramics, Photographs, Postcards, Quick Fiction, Quotations, and (Usually Aquatic) Reflections. (P.S. This blog looks better in the web version.)

Friday, October 29, 2021

Childhood favorite, Formative Te

The Velveteen Rabbit may be the first story that really taught me something special about the power of literature. I recall as a young bo...

Bolinas Lagoon: 2014

Old Clay

The wizard-king.

Thursday, October 28, 2021

Dorothy Dunnett Day -- By Zoom?

Dorothy Dunnett Day is the second Saturday in November. Plenty of time to pick up a bottle of her favorite whisky, Highland Park, an Orkne...

Sunday, October 24, 2021

Birnam Wood-Kerne

Birnam wood-kerne with Icelandic berserker (via the Lewis chessmen)

Oxford in the Rain

Perfect reading for a rainy day -- and any day, for that matter. Harriet Vane in Oxford. Lord Peter Wimsey in the wings . . . . I'm on...

Feline Dreaming

Early this morning, I dreamed that a guest had brought a furry little pet--a rat, a vole, a guinea pig?--to the house and was letting it r...

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Matt Duckworth: San Francisco; East Bay, CA, United States; Heed the reefs not yet charted Seek that green isle beyond design

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