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Tag Archives: Postcards
Postcard from Hanoi: A city of a thousand fig trees
Nature has scattered these living sculptures across the city. Most of them have grown from seeds that bird species dispersed long ago. It’s a shame for the trees and the people who pray at them that those birds have grown quiet, and seem now to live largely in cages that hang in plain sight of the trees they would like to feed from. Continue reading
Postcard from Jersey: Red sky at night
A castle in the sea, a sky torn apart by aeroplane contrails and a sliver of a crescent moon hanging high like a divine nail clipping. Continue reading
Postcard from Durban: Greener football and tree-preneurs
Busisiwe Ndlela was radiant when I met her yesterday. Just this month, and with money she earned selling tiny trees, she has bought a new cupboard and an electric stove and she is proud as can be.
Postcard from Qatar: A rainbow of rabbits and soft fluffy chicks
We don’t need to paint our way to paradise — it is outside, waiting to be found or forgotten. Continue reading
Postcard from Japan: bamboo poetry in Kyoto
Here are a few photos of an amazing patch of bamboo that I encountered yesterday in Kyoto, Japan. It’s a magical place. Walking through it is like a massage for the mind.
