continuousmistake.com
Clouds in the Shape of Dragons | One Continuous Mistake
https://continuousmistake.com/2015/02/06/clouds-in-the-shape-of-dragons
The Persistence of Landscape. Motherlode Burning →. Clouds in the Shape of Dragons. Posted by tracy franz. Today I am washing dishes as Nova Scotia fog drifts behind the glass of the window above the sink. My five-year-old son, with trembling lip and downcast eyes, tells me that he’s the one not Girl who put pennies into the computer. I wanted to tell you the truth, Mama. He shouts. We fly and shoot fire! Lying on our backs in the grass in this way, we are invisible to all but the clouds that move across...
continuousmistake.com
An Architecture of Empathy | One Continuous Mistake
https://continuousmistake.com/2014/09/30/an-architecture-of-empathy
Inside Boy’s Mind. Of Trees and Memory →. An Architecture of Empathy. Posted by tracy franz. Often, there are landmarks of recognition a character, a dwelling, a room, an object from my past. Sometimes it is entirely unexplored territory. Either way, I spend my nights mapping an interior landscape that reveals and reveals and reveals. Mama, where’s the piggy? The pigs, we’d been told, were to be found in a hay-filled corner of the barn before us. Do you want to get closer? A girl is a house. 2 thoughts o...
stoneanddust.com
Cemetery 46: Stockholm’s Skogskyrkogården – stone and dust
https://stoneanddust.com/2016/08/26/cemetery-45-stockholms-skogskyrkogarden
Photography and musings on cemeteries. Cemetery 46: Stockholm’s Skogskyrkogården. For all you taphophiles out there, how many cemeteries do think are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site? Well, I’ll give you a hint: Skogskyrkogården. Is one of them*. It was inscribed on the list in 1994, yet, I have to admit that I had never heard of it until I started doing my research for. This slideshow requires JavaScript. With various open and wooded sections. There are a variety of monuments (like the large c...
juliamhammond.wordpress.com
A beginner’s guide to the Trans-Siberian | Julia's Travels
https://juliamhammond.wordpress.com/2017/01/01/a-beginners-guide-to-the-trans-siberian
A beginner’s guide to the Trans-Siberian. I love a good train trip and the ultimate in rail journeys has surely got to be the Trans-Siberian in some form or another. If you’re thinking of crossing Russia by train, I’d suggest doing some background reading beforehand to get your head around what seems like a complex trip but in reality is more straightforward than it looks. What is the Trans-Siberian? Trans-Siberian route (Courtesy of Ertmann and Profil CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia). How long will I need?
stoneanddust.com
The European Death Tour: 2016 Edition – stone and dust
https://stoneanddust.com/2016/08/07/the-european-death-tour-2016-edition
Photography and musings on cemeteries. The European Death Tour: 2016 Edition. So…back to Europe! Last year when I was traipsing all over some of Europe’s greatest cemeteries, never did I think I’d be back almost exactly a year later to do the same thing. I really did think it would be a few years before I would be able to return, even. Tallin, Estonia: Siselinna Cemetery. Moscow, Russia: Lenin’s Mausoleum. St Petersburg, Russia: Alexander Nevsky Monastery (and cemetery). Peter and Paul Fortress. In any e...
stoneanddust.com
Cemetery 48: Helsinki’s Hietaniemi Cemetery – stone and dust
https://stoneanddust.com/2016/08/30/cemetery-48-helsinkis-hietaniemi-cemetery
Photography and musings on cemeteries. Cemetery 48: Helsinki’s Hietaniemi Cemetery. Since I often travel alone I usually don’t worry too much about what I see and when. This sometimes backfires, but usually it works well, allowing me to stay in places that catch my interest and forgoing those that don’t. Unfortunately, when I was in St. Petersburg I got really sick. Having passed by the cemetery on my first day in Helsinki, I realised (I hope I was right) that the more northern section was newer. I s...
stoneanddust.com
Cemetery 33: Nikko’s Self-Immolation Cemetery – stone and dust
https://stoneanddust.com/2016/03/07/cemetery-32-nikkos-self-immolation-cemetery
Photography and musings on cemeteries. Cemetery 33: Nikko’s Self-Immolation Cemetery. There is something about moss in the rain, the green is so luminescent, the air that surrounds it is practically breathing, that it makes one forget the frenetic pace of life in the concrete and steel cities of Japan. So it was as I made my way to Nikko,. Person.” This ties in nicely with what I found next. According to Lafacadio Hearn in “Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation” (1904),. This slideshow requires JavaScript.
stoneanddust.com
Death and Spinsterhood: It’s personal – stone and dust
https://stoneanddust.com/2016/11/13/death-and-spinsterhood
Photography and musings on cemeteries. Death and Spinsterhood: It’s personal. I’ve had an on-again, off-again relationship with cemeteries my entire life. I remember as a child being fascinated by the old stone slab gravestones with skulls and crossbones on them, and was always hoping to come across some whenever I happened across a cemetery. However, in. Oh, that’s your plot. You’ll be beside me and your mother. I needed a moment. I was only 30 years old! I’m going to die alone and childless. Notify me ...
stoneanddust.com
Cemetery 35: The Kremlin Memorials – stone and dust
https://stoneanddust.com/2016/08/11/cemetery-35-the-kremlin-memorials
Photography and musings on cemeteries. Cemetery 35: The Kremlin Memorials. Or…Lenin’s Mausoleum, the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. I have to admit it: I have this strange fascination for embalmed Communist leaders. Well, maybe fascination is too strong a word, but there’s. And a more permanent tomb was built. And he’s been on display for over 90 years, despite the fact the most Russians feel that it would be appropriate to bury him once and for all. Lenin’s Mausoleum...
stoneanddust.com
Cemetery 47: Stockholm’s Galärvarvskyrkogården – stone and dust
https://stoneanddust.com/2016/08/28/cemetery-46-stockholms-galarvarvskyrkogarden
Photography and musings on cemeteries. Cemetery 47: Stockholm’s Galärvarvskyrkogården. Some of Stockholm’s most well-known sites are located on the island of Djurgården: especially museums: the Vasa Museum, the Nordic Museum, the Spirit Museum, the ABBA Museum, and Skansen, the world’s first living history museum. But unbeknownst to me (and probably most. People), there’s a small naval cemetery in a park behind/next to the Vasa, Nordic, and Spirit museums. The cemetery seems to be a part of. Although I d...
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT