An unrecoverable shipwreck
An interesting Long Read, care of the San Francisco Chronicle.
Which whets ones' appetite for what may be down there...
Link: https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2019/the-fishermans-secret/
What is insane is that having found it he can't recover it, and if he could it would very likely be lost to endless litigation by government and corporations that have no more legitimate interest in it than thieves. It underlines why most of the worlds treasures when found go unreported...
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Witch Bottles
Link: Witch Bottles on Wikipedia
In America: https://archive.archaeology.org/online/features/halloween/witch_bottle.html
Via The Museum of London: https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/sorcery-display-witch-bottles
Instructions via Sabbat Box: https://www.sabbatbox.com/blogs/sabbat-box-blog/what-is-a-witch-bottle
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The Phantom Vibration
Out walking, a phone call from G***. We haven't yet caught up, talk a few minutes, make vague plans to get together with the Nephew. And while I'm talking I on the phone I can still feel it vibrating on my thigh, right where it was before I answered it, in my pocket, only my phone is in my hand. The Phantom vibration of a call, text message, or email, - when I have my phone, odd enough, but even when I don't have it with me, when I've left it home charging. For the very slight usage I get out of it there's been a significant rewiring of my brain, like a phantom limb...
Thought is everything, and I consider the targeted ads I get when I'm online - clearly they have an idea of who I am, my age and gender - ads for Tinnitus, for hearing aids, shingles, for attractive single older women - nothing that I'm in need of or am looking for, but forever planting the seed, the seed in your mind that grows to become the illness and when you're ready, when it's blossomed, they'll be there to sell you the cure...
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Stormy Postcard
Think of the devil and who should appear. This in my mailbox today:
A postcard from you-know-who. That's not his art, that's another artist that sells his own peculiar brand of art in a mall in Nelson...it's good that he shops local and supports the other artists...
It kind of reminds me of Gauguin & van Gogh, or Warhol and Basquiat...
On the back? Glad you asked...
....Somebodies trying to plan a trip to Calgary...
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