Then support libraries to engage with communities so they can run thriving hubs of knowledge and leisure and curiosity. Raise their user numbers. If your stomach is empty do you just have it removed because it’s “not being used”? Or something???

I see it’s #MobileLibrariesDay2024. I’ve been working on some photos from Arran this week, and the cosy knits of their mobile library.

The Beach Today calendar is back with 12 more of the ~365 pairings of sea, sky and stone made from Nov 2020 - Nov 2021. This site is different now but The Beach Today exists because of it/the people on it and for that I’ll always be grateful! Ok thanks! christinariley.bigcartel.com

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The Beach Today calendars are here! If you like the sea and pebbles and making and remembering plans. You can get one at christinariley.bigcartel.com (if you’re local or I’ll see you soon message and I’ll give free shipping) With thanks to my assistant, the wind. Thank you!

Pages from a dance manual, 1700s

First bundle of these are going out today, thank you to anyone who’s picked one up for themselves or for a pebble loving loved one 🪨

Last chance to join us in Irvine tomorrow, 3-4pm, for Kirsten MacQuarrie MCLIP’s feminist retelling of the true story behind a Scottish nature classic 🦦 And it’s free! But booking is essential, tickets here eventbrite.co.uk/e/remember-the…

Moving, have moved, to the other blue place. christinariley.bsky.social 🔵

“That traditional model of book-lending is an out of date way of looking at libraries and if you just go on that data, you miss the point … It becomes so much more than just a transaction of our books.” Don’t cut libraries, don’t let them cut libraries. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Know anyone who loves the sea and pebbles and pebbles that look like the sea? 2025 calendars, and cards, available at christinariley.bigcartel.com 🪨 (Sunday evening push because I’m going to the post office tomorrow)

Still obsessing over hearing Garth Greenwell talk about sentence muscularity at The Portobello Bookshop and always quietly obsessing about ballet and less quietly about this cool planet we live on. New post on Substack about some of that thenaturelibrary.substack.com/p/body-languag…

the most beautiful crab carcass I’ve ever seen and that’s saying a lot

goodness me. water droplets on a window in the desert agate.

A love letter to libraries, on The Nature Library’s first year in Irvine and being stunned (but not speechless, apparently) by the great people walking through its doors. Another year of libraries facing cuts and also of them literally rising from the ashes. Thanks Caught by the River!

fully here now bsky.app/profile/christ… let me know if you are too especially if you like sea stuff and books because that’s mostly what there’ll be thank you 🪸