Herbie Hancock describing the time he played the wrong chord with Miles, and what that taught him about life. Miles is quoted as saying: “ It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.” sheetmusiclibrary.website

Spotted by a friend in Byram, Mississippi

Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘The South Hams of Devonshire’ (1951) Artist: SR Badmin

A glorious afternoon, spent in the company of Utterly Dark and Egg! Philip Reeve your world building of Wildsea and its inhabitants is wonderful, thank you, It sits so well among our own tides of time in South Devon! 💙HarbourBookshop #butallthingschange #utterlydark #RfP

Animation of Chet Baker playing “You Go to My Head.”

Who are the real wealth creators? The bankers, the corporate lawyers, the marketeers and the CEO's? Or the teachers, nurses, garbage collectors, plumbers, cleaners, care workers, etc.?

“Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.” L.R. Knost

This is Juliet Mabey (Juliet Mabey), my editor and publisher. Since 2009, when she started publishing fiction at Oneworld Publications, she has published three Booker Prize-winning novels. LEGEND.

Don't think the visual metaphor of this building has ever struck me so strongly as it does tonight. Something beautiful about the ship, pulled up right in the heart of London.

Yes, we've made the shortlist for the BEST INDEPENDENT BOOKSHOP at this year's British Book Awards. So proud to help fly the flag for Devon! 💖🥳 Gloucester Road Books Borzoi Bookshop Shrew Books FOLDE Maxminervas.bsky.social Westbourne Bookshop Liznojan Books and Coffee Bert’s Books @bookhaus2

There is a death of sorts in the moments after being diagnosed with cancer. The self you were before is torn and blasted with the suddenness of a dozen mines, the heavy sword of Damocles is roped and hung, your own thin ghost steps forward from the shadows. It feels like being

(Illustration: Photo by Anis Rahman on Unsplash)

In 2017, I did something dumb. There was a total solar eclipse passing through the US, but I was in NY, far from the path. Was I really gonna get on a plane to see a cool thing for two minutes? Nah. I had shit to do. The day came. I put my stupid glasses on and saw the sun

Please share widely - the second year of the Martha Mills Young Writers’ Prize. We’re thrilled to have the wonderful Philip Pullman as a judge - Martha was such a fan of his books

Bluebells on Holwell Lawn, Dartmoor. And so many cuckoos, seen and heard, at nearby Emsworthy Mire. (My happy place)

Illustrator and writer, Hilary Knight, chats with Giuseppe Castellano about his life and work as an illustrator illustrationdept.com/podcast/hilary…

It’s my birthday so sharing the greatest gift I got which is this video my phone made of pictures I’ve taken of Alan Titchmarsh trying drinks

It’s a beautiful day in the South Hams 😀☀️#vote

We are not on Twitter much but this moved me to silent, wobbly tears (in a good way - please read) and I wanted to share it with you. Please look up Ian Dunt on substack. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/p/…

I finished Middlemarch today. What a magnificent achievement; the final words are a peerlessly wise & humane philosophy of life. I’ve never seen the much-lauded 1990s BBC adaptation, which is on iPlayer. Grateful for advice on whether I should watch it.