January 2010
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fiesta: the sun also rises
In July every year, crowds gather in the Galician village of As Neves to honour Santa Marta de Ribarteme, the patron saint of near-death experiences. After several days of fiesta, those who have had near-death experiences that year are carried in open coffins in a procession to church, where they attend Mass and give thanks to Santa Marta for having avoided the real funeral they just rehearsed. ...
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the still centre of the turning world
The road to the Marmotte started at the midwinter solstice, “the still centre of the turning world” as TS Eliot called it. I didn’t get as far as Oli at Morvélo; far enough, though, to feel the Siberian wind whipping snow across the downs. Daylight was scarce and precipitation later came as water, not snow, stripping the muddy fields of their white covering as the day went...
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