Did you know that the first 'voice' sounded like a fart? I didn't, until I heard this episode of @radiolab.bsky.social which takes the listener all the way from our fishy evolutionary beginnings to the modern inventions that aid speech, via beautifully spliced conversation and thoughtful narration.

"Here is sculpture being used as an instrument for awareness of being. What is the subject? Well, the subject is your experience of being within the field. Whatever you bring in will be amplified."

- Anthony Gormley on Walter De Maria's The Lightening Field', for @thisculturallife.bsky.social ⚡

Being rather late to the @heavyweight.bsky.social party, I told myself to relax as I gobbled up every episode. "They've got a new home, there's more of this stuff," I reasoned. And there is - but not until THE SUMMER!! Time to find myself a space in the same boat as everyone else...

Finding respite from the news in these newly discovered (how did they bypass my childhood self?) glorious #booktitles from Joan Aiken.

P.S. Don't tell Trump about The Last Slice of Rainbow. He'll either snaffle it for his own benefit or promise to put an end to rainbows all together.