Missives from the Verge with Allyson Shaw

Missives from the Verge with Allyson Shaw

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Missives from the Verge with Allyson Shaw
Missives from the Verge with Allyson Shaw
Just Don't Mention the War...

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Full circle on the full cold moon 🟡

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Allyson Shaw
Nov 15, 2024
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A digital collage of shreds of paper and a photograph of a young woman with thick square glasses knitting a scarf in front of green tiled oven that is used for central heating in Germany in some older houses
Knitting in Bavaria in in front of the beautiful tiled kachelofen, or masonry heater.

At the full moon I revisit older work. I wrote his blog post almost twenty years ago as I travelled around Bavaria. It feels relevant now as we face a rise in the far right in Europe and the US. In the post I still refer to the US as ‘my country.’ I had not yet adopted …

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