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Invisible Roads

or, The Thumb of Self-Compassion The world is full of tracks and paths and routes, many invisible to our eyes, currents brushing the face of things, whispers, yesterday’s wind across the earth below. As I write, I am beneath one…

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  • Alexander M Crow
  • 10th October 2020
  • Newsletter, Not A Travel Writer

Once Upon a Time…

…Ten Years Ago, Today. This will be a long read. I do not apologise for this. This is a chapter of a life, a start, of sorts. A once-upon-a-time. But where does this story start? Where does a story ever…

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  • Alexander M Crow
  • 14th September 2020
  • Newsletter, Not A Travel Writer

The Sense of a Storm

Echoes and Foreboding It comes not through taste or sight, sound, or touch, or scent, but through something other, another one of our senses the majority somehow forget we possess. It is a pressing down inside, something foreboding, ancient, deep…

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  • Alexander M Crow
  • 2nd September 2020
  • Newsletter, Not A Travel Writer

Seasons and Memory

Whispers and Seaglass No place has but four seasons, and Alentejo is no different. Summer, yes, of course it is, but it is no longer the days of the wildflower-rich, high-sun summer, nor the screaming swift summer, nor the misty…

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  • Alexander M Crow
  • 3rd August 2020
  • Newsletter, Not A Travel Writer

Time and Magic

Magic and Time Time, at some points and places, stretches. Days seem longer, the mind translates the passage of the sun in ways which are not, perhaps, normal. When I was eight, my family moved to Stromness, Orkney. The month…

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  • Alexander M Crow
  • 5th July 2020
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