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Hidden Gems

The Mawddach river estuary, Barmouth Bay, curving round to Shell Island at the top left — thus almost the full extent of today’s route

Hiding in plain sight
Leo the tree surgeon

The Motion in Water

It’s a grand thing to get leave to live
Nan Shepherd

Back on the Road

Look at their shoes!
Charles Beaumont, A Spy Alone

Saint George’s Processional

Locus iste
Latin gradual of dedication, based on the Biblical stories of Jacob’s Ladder and Moses and the Burning Bush

Interstices

Through the interstices of things ajar
Robert Frost, ‘On a bird singing in its sleep’

Connection

In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present- I am rising to the work of a human being.
Marcus Aurelius, To Himself, Book 5

Green, grey, silver, white

maru mori — “the heartbreaking simplicity of ordinary things”; dès vu — “the awareness that this moment will become a memory”
Neologisms from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig