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TWENTY Ships Have Meanings

By Editor The USA Blog on May 15, 2022

NINETEEN Identity and Consequences

By Editor The USA Blog on March 7, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

EIGHTEEN The Finality of Holes

By Editor The USA Blog on February 14, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

SEVENTEEN Tom and Paul

By Editor The USA Blog on February 6, 2022

SIXTEEN Tom, Virginia and Susan

By Editor The USA Blog on January 30, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

FIFTEEN Reclaiming Native Truth

By Editor The USA Blog on February 16, 2021

TEN Took Away Our Native Tongue

By Editor The USA Blog on January 3, 2021

Took away our native tongue
And taught their English to our young: our new sound system and a look at Indigenous languages

seal in harbour at St Ives

NINE Ancient Rhinos

By Editor The USA Blog on December 27, 2020

The Race Marshal catches a ghost shark and I tell the story of the extinct American rhino and the bas relief at Ashfall.

SCABBARD FISH

EIGHT Minnie and the Killer Whale

By Editor The USA Blog on December 18, 2020

Minnie spots a killer whale – one of the orcas of the Salish Sea. We hear about the Chinook of the Fraser River and sonar testing by the US Navy.

destitute man

SEVEN The Good in All of the Bad

By Editor The USA Blog on December 5, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

A tweet from the Navajo Nation’s Health Department Director starts a chain of thought through Indigenous peoples’ suffering to the extraordinary kindness of the Irish.

SIX Woolly Dogs

By Editor The USA Blog on November 30, 2020

I make marrons glaces and am burnt by hot syrup. Barking dogs on the shore lead to a conversation about dog wool.

FIVE The Japanese Connection

By Editor The USA Blog on November 27, 2020

A truffled breakfast and a discussion of ocean currents and the spread of mushrooms. I mistake the Native American Flute for a shakuhachi.

pasta

FOUR Ancient Seas

By Editor The USA Blog on November 22, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

Looking back to a fragmented North America and the catastrophe that might have befallen the Heraclitus many millions of years ago. We lunch on aglio e olio.

two quinces

THREE Truffle Season

By Editor The USA Blog on November 10, 2020

In Seattle, sitting out the terrible forest fires; thinking about truffles, quinces and marrons glaces.

TWO Booktown USA

By Editor The USA Blog on September 10, 2020

We sail past Annie Proulx’s house and mull over Seattle’s literary fame – more bookstores per capita than anywhere else in the USA and possibly more wonderful authors.

tall grey office tower

ONE The Grand Depart

By Editor The USA Blog on September 2, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

At ease on Heraclitus reflecting on coyotes, Boeing and injera and wat. We sail with the rising tide.

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