rivers_water - Through the sandglass

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Honeycomb shelters

What, you might reasonably ask, is this image? This is, after all, a blog about topics arenaceous, and folded paper ornaments would, while somewhat seasonal, ha...

January 1, 2015 4 min read

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January 2015

Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives

January 1, 2015 2 min read

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Hypnopompic dunes

Between sleeping and awakening. We tend to think of the world’s dune fields as fearsomely awake, threatening and encroaching, creating vast sand and dust storms...

November 1, 2014 8 min read

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November 2014

Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives

November 1, 2014 8 min read

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August 2014

Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives

August 1, 2014 6 min read

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July 2014

Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives

July 1, 2014 6 min read

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The United Nations watches ‘Sand Wars’

Serendipity is a wonderful thing, and I was surprised and delighted to find, completely by accident while looking for something else, this document, published b...

June 1, 2014 2 min read

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Water on the desert sands

We all know that walking along the beach on wet sand is easier than dragging our feet through the dry stuff. We all know that wet sand is a very different mater...

May 1, 2014 6 min read

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April 2014

Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives

April 1, 2014 6 min read

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February 2014

Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives

February 1, 2014 7 min read

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The next book

The Greek word for ‘desert’ is eremos, from which comes ‘hermit,’ and that is exactly what I have been for quite a while. The word is appropriate because I have...

January 1, 2014 7 min read