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11th Jan 2020 Sharon books

The Wild Remedy & the Gaia reading challenge.

Depression, and mental illness more broadly, is the great plague of twenty-first century life. Does nature and increasing our contact with the natural world offer at least partial relief to mental distress? The healing balm of nature is part of Emma Mitchell's thesis in The Wild Remedy - How nature mends us. Essentially a diary … Continue reading The Wild Remedy & the Gaia reading challenge.

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Pre-work coffee and books. Bony at Bermagui was another interlibrary loan, thankfully so, it is only 110 pages and a bit repetitive so not really worth purchasing. Has curiosity value, one for the die hard Upfield fans, contains a couple of essays about sports fishing at Bermagui, a short story, not Upfield' s best and a chapter from The mystery at swordfish reef. A quick read for the Upfield fan or anyone curious at sports fishing at Bermagui. #Bermagui is an incredible place, had hoped to visit the Sapphire coast this year but that is probably on hold for a bit. Incredibly beautiful piece of Australia.
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A bit of a stationary post more than a book post. Do you annotate your books as you read? For me it is a bit of a an old student habit to scribble in margins or to underline and highlight as I read. Or to use coloured tabs to highlight passages in books that have been loaned to me, obviously don't annotate borrowed books. A few years ago I became aware of plastic waste even in my stationary but switched to some great alternatives, like the dry highlighter pencils by #staedtler, love using those. And I replaced the coloured plastic tabs with books darts, reusable little metal tabs, they look a lot more elegant than the old tabs and they last forever. While I have always preferred to scribble in pencil, I also decided to switch out disposable pens for fountain pens to reduce plastic waste. I started with a cheap preppy pen and still using it today I also picked up a cheap bamboo fountain pen and I love it as an alternative to plastic pens.
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