detail of photo by Calebe Miranda at pexels.com
nightrecordings is asking for "recommendations for memoirs and personal diaries written by people who made a conscious choice to live a more ascetic life, and in turn discover how to better appreciate simple, but meaningful, pleasures," and the Ask Me crew is coming through!
Books About Town, Book Benches, Samuel Pepy's Diary by Martin Pettitt (cc by)
I was just curious if anyone else is recognized as having had a similar place, in terms of chronicling a particular place in history and daily life as it happened to them?
Alensin asks, I've begun reading the Diary of Samuel Pepys, and was curious if similar sources exist for other historical periods?
MacMummy - Birth (Harry Burton Style) by vintagedept (cc by)
ominous sarcophagus; exhilarating ichnology; how now Homo sapiens?; exasperation excavation; crowdfunded dig dug; preservation annihilation; dig diaries; parched plots expose lots.
Pages from one of Lindgrens' notebooks. Photo credit: Andrea Davis Kronlund / Kungliga Biblioteket via spiegel.de
It's a small world. This man's granddaughter - whose wartime letter was read by Astrid Lindgren and copied in secret - teaches my daughter violin.
Three blind mice comments in the Astrid Lindgren wartime diaries thread on his friendship with the son of the letter-writer whose missive to his brother led Lindgren to write: "Hitler apparently intends to transform all of Poland into a ghetto, where the poor Jews will die of hunger and filth..."
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