Category: Places and Spaces
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Familiar Strangers in India
Julian Crandall Hollick, in a story called “Life in India: Dawn on Parsee Gulli” on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday, described an experience — a series of experiences, really — that reminds me of the Familiar Stranger phenomenon. Hollick talks about walking past a man standing outside his apartment each day, how the two would exchange…
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A Scent of Place
NPR’s All Things Considered last night included a story on “Eau de Borough”, which reported on Eau de New York, the new Bond No. 9 fragrance collection designed by Laurice Rahme that includes different perfumes for 17 different neighborhoods in New York City. People’s connections to places are often displayed, explicitly or implicitly, in the…
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Sometimes you get what you need
[Moblog posted from Grand Illusion Cafe.]