Anna Iltnere

harvest moon brought us here 13 years ago. on a dune peninsula between river and sea

her highness

a different kind of home

good morning, sun and swans

Mid-Mediterranean calm.

Video by Given Rozell.

It might read like a fantasy and yet everything is based on true events and coincidences and ideas. And the Blue Dog comes from my dad's, Kristaps Ģelzis painting "Walking With My Blue Dog" that is very important to me.

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this wondrous and weird and wild journey of telling my tale in fairytales to get it all out of my bloodstream and let it flow. five years of carrying the plotline around and filling notebooks. enough. 2 more weekend left. you can read them on my blog and my substack too.

Flowers of the Sky Depictions spanning almost a whole millennium — in chronological order — of comets, meteors, meteorites and shooting stars.

Does anyone want beautiful historical depictions of celestial phenomena? Anyone? Well, here you go publicdomainreview.org/collection/f...

good morning, October

YouTube video by Dr. Jane Goodall & the Jane Goodall Institute USA FAQs with Jane: What is your favorite animal?

rest in peace, beautiful soul
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Gilbert White’s world of wonder | The Observer Jenny Uglow's account of a year in the life of an 18th-century curate and his garden is a glorious celebration of curiosity and nature

observer.co.uk/culture/book... my review of Jenny Uglow's wonderful new book... @faberbooks.bsky.social

"‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”

- Voltaire

[via @faudio.bsky.social]

he had a car crash 9 years ago and that has left a deep scar in all our lives especially his but now he has a dog who is visiting him often

thank you!!!

Letter from September Dear friend,Our September began with a wish. Kristians wanted to see the Milky Way in the night sky, so on one of the first nights of September, the four of us set out for the nearest moss bog (800…

a diary of sorts, to keep a track of each passing month. a letter from September is now on beachbooks.blog/2025/10/01/l...

blissful and brisk morning before the day sets sail

I wrote this gem of an article for @theguardian.com many moons ago and it finally published.

There is a 30 min companion documentary that is 2 years in the making that you absolutely must see 🪺 👇

www.theguardian.com/global/ng-in...

You find a barnacled buoy on the beach, think about bringing it home to the Sea Library, and instinctively put your hat on its orange top.

wonderful! I can share the postal address, if anyone is interested to write a letter, just let me know.

here are the first 11: sea-library.com/category/cur...

This looks like a beautiful project to contribute to - especially because I have just finished reading Sea Bean by Sally Huband - a beautiful book on beachcombing.

so beautiful

thank you, Russ !

what do you see above the sea? 😑

read this

Do rivers and whales have legal rights? Campaigners for giving ‘legal personhood’ to the natural world sense they are winning the argument

🌊Do rivers and whales really have rights?

ELF Co-Director Emma Montlake shares insights in this thought-provoking Financial Times, exploring what it truly means to give nature a voice in law.

Read more: www.ft.com/content/d8ed...

#RightsofNature #EnvironmentalJustice #RiverRights #LegalPersonhood

Call to sea community around the world: Write a Letter to the Sea Seven years ago, on June 4, a small room near the Baltic Sea opened its doors to stories about salt water, sea creatures, adventurous spirits, and deep secrets. The Sea Library began with books — a…

Happy to announce a new long-term project based in slow time, snail mail &love for handwriting & the sea “Write a Letter to the Sea”. Katrīna Ģelze’s beautiful illustration will be sent as a postcard to those who participate. First letters published on sea-library.com beachbooks.blog/2025/05/23/w...

Photo from Kristaps Ģelzis’ archive, taken in 2011 in the Venice Biennale. Five summers later, on a night of falling stars, he – my dad – crashed his car on a dark road and has not been able to create since. sealibrary.substack.com/p/the-girl-w...

I love the Sea Library

“Why the world feels like a shipwreck”

a painting !