2024-02-17 – Sigma DP2
cycad flower, Bermuda
→ (youtube) Anúna «Ever Come to an End»
Americans think 100 years is a long time. Europeans think 100 miles is a long distance.
jumping back to «The Mindful Narrowboat», another thing that stands out to me, as much as the sense of history, is the sense of shared community traditions – England has not succumbed to the disease of suburbia to the same extant as the US so the towns and villages have remained clustered like beads along the rivers, canals, and rail lines
→ (youtube) The Mindful Narrowboat
→ Galina Tachieva, Sprawl Repair Manual (2010)
and along the way, each town and village has a selection of a few traditional institutions, institutions in the US we’ve lost to suburbia and commercialization – a small historic collection meticulously maintained by some crusty pensioner who blooms with enthusiasm at the slightest hint of interest – the church steeple poking up over the local landscape – a small, local theater (often with «Players» in the name) where the focus is on passion over marketability – and the local pub that serves both food and drink (our founding by religious fundamentalists has driven a solid wedge between bars and restaurants, and never the twain shall meet)
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