From ‘Emergence’ Magazine….Update On The Blomuir Dig…...BBC Pics of Scotland…..
by Bernie Bell - 09:16 on 19 May 2025
From ‘Emergence’ Magazine…
by Annabel Howard
Am I the only person who feels this euphemism—“no harvest”—is far too casual for what should be appropriately labeled The End of the World?
Future projections suggest we may only have a few decades left before the final harvest capable of feeding the world. How do we begin to comprehend such an ending? Does imagining it give us a kind of certainty amid ecological chaos? In thirty short passages, from pruning dandelions with her four-year-old to grappling with the mathematical theory of infinity, art historian and writer Annabel Howard moves through a mind-warping process of fathoming a world where the cycles that have sustained us since the beginning of time cease. Following her fascination with the apocalyptic imagery in Botticelli’s Mystical Nativity, she contemplates how imagining the end of the infinite is not radical for our time, but rather an enduring way of giving shape to inconceivable realities. Like all of us, she reaches for certitude amid the fear of a world aflame, only to glimpse the paradox of apocalypse: that in ending there lies beginning.”
https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/thirty-years/
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Update On The Blomuir Dig….
Orkney Archaeology Society’s film of Hugo Anderson-Whymark's talk after the 2nd season of excavation at Blomuir is now available, for free, on their YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se777EUH33c
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BBC Pics of Scotland…..
9th – 16th of May 2025…
Some acknowledgements of V.E. Day….
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8nym3xxp9o
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