a wonderful Latvian star

today at the National Library of Latvia – celebrating the 500th anniversary of the first book published in Latvian

Sea Library shelves as seen through (a bottle of) water. By my Kristians (soon 16)

~ barnacle art ~

Wings spread like a black cross, Drying in the sun's slow loss. The sea's deep pull, a silent call, To dive again, and conquer all. So, a question posed yesterday. What might the cormorant be thinking? Not in words at all thought I. But possibilities?

Ambulocetus natans, prototype whale slightly more alsatian than leviathan the natural history museum at Calci, nr Pisa

Lerici, where Shelley drowned

yes, there is a NEMO bus stop in Jūrmala

Very welcome Anna - glad it landed safely! And delighted to be part of the Sea Library!

"Underwater artist captures beautiful and rare marine life of Argyll coast" 🪸 Thank you Sally McDonald and the @sundaypost.com for this lovely feature with @christinariley.bsky.social www.sundaypost.com/fp/christina... #Booksky 📚💙

dusting the Sea Library shelves

Looking Down at the Stars is out a week today! Launching at @portybooks.bsky.social in Edinburgh on Nov 13 and Mount Florida Books in Glasgow on the 22. Hope you can come hear about anemones etc. Edinburgh www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/chris... Glasgow mountfloridabooks.com/products/loo...

Look! What has arrived at the Sea Library. "The View from the Shoulder: A Portrait of Scottish Surfing" by Roger Cox – the story of surfing in Scotland (including coffin-lid surfers!) Thank you @outdoorscots.bsky.social so much. Buy or borrow, read, share and surf: sea-library.com/2025/11/01/7...

at this time of the year, rose bushes are full of riverside leopards

November river. good morning, no more masks

"I loved this October. Its cold, foggy mornings. Its dark evenings with lanterns and copper oak leaves. With everything I have and love, and everything still waiting to be created." My letter from October: beachbooks.blog/2025/10/31/l...

Genoese portals to another world... difficult to tell if the ghosts are real or make-believe

NEW! Hot off the press. Recorded just two days ago in one of our favourite spots in Dorset. This is a return to the wonder that is Chesil Beach. Episode 285 - Late October on Chesil Beach (sleep safe) 32 minutes. Just the sound of the waves and the pebbles. No one else around. bit.ly/LenChesil3

We are so excited to be publishing @steverutt.bsky.social's new book #TheWaterlands, an evocative journey through British waterscapes revealing everything a single raindrop can show us on its journey from source to sea. 💧 Read more @bookbrunch.bsky.social: www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article...

Come to the Institute for Sacred Music next Th-Fri in New Haven for Water Cosmology! I'll be talking about (what else?) ocean swimming as ecological meditation in the Anthropocene - ism.yale.edu/events/2025-...

Yayoi Kusama, Pumpkin sculpture, Naoshima Island, Shikoku. #womensart 🎃

An annual event, Paddlebuard witches Oregon US #WomensArt (Photo D.Caslick) #Halloween #Samhain

Sea Library window this evening

“Sea Libraries” (yes, in a wonderful plural) will be forthcoming from @facetpublishing.bsky.social. I’m still pinching myself.

I grew up with this. It explains a lot.

Good morning 🌅

Book deal finally signed. Thank you, Sea Library. Thank you, a room full of books. And thank you, dear sea. Can’t wait to share more but I’ll have to finish the book first.

A corner of Autumn colour in the tiny garden.

Browns, greens, and yellows of late October. Our path to the river, swan parents signaling a softly digital sound. Good morning.

Blake's Sea of Time and Space an undefined place

I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs

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The water will come…

"As an Indigenous man, I know very well the pain of the forest, because its body is an extension of ours. When I speak of the body of the forest...it is everything." Powerful and important piece by Wajã Xipai on rivers, forests and interviewing António Guterres. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Issue 353 • November/December 2025 The gift of #water > www.resurgence.org/magazine/iss... In this issue we focus on one of life’s greatest gifts: #FreshWater Cover #Artwork: Lindblad Cove, Antarctica, November 22, 2018. Courtesy of the artist, @zarialynn.bsky.social

Krill fishing has just got even more political and horrifying Ukrainian scientist, Leonid Pshenichnov, has been arrested by Russia for his work in Antarctica towards protecting krill from overexploitation He faces life in prison for "high treason" 🦑🌊🧪 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I listened to the Sunday morning show The Year That Made Me at 7 a.m. in Sydney (before midnight here), to hear if I was on this one or the next (I wasn’t on this one.) I fell asleep & spent the night with Bowie feeding ducks, making X-rays & talking about whales. Maybe because I chose the year 2016

season of gold outside sea library window

I love archaeologists. I love dogs. I wanted to be a pirate when I was little. @tomgauld.bsky.social knows me too well.

New book out today!! My latest collaboration with the amazing art duo Good Wives and Warriors Join us on a journey around the ocean, from icy poles, to kelp forests, coral reefs and the mysterious deep, meeting all sorts of amazing animals along the way 🌊🐠🦭🦑🐋🦀🦈 www.laurenceking.com/products/oce...

the sea is a chameleon

'The Sea Monster Salutes' Roland Penrose, collage Falmouth Art Gallery

“If successful, the same infrastructure that carries the internet between continents could also carry the songs of whales, the creak of shifting ice, the distant rumble of underwater landslides – a constant, living chorus of the ocean itself.” oceanographicmagazine.com/features/dee...

talking today about libraries in old manors before I board my train and head back from the National Library to the Sea Library

"What makes people make art? It isn’t sales, that’s for sure, as the London art world is in pretty bad shape here. Anyway, I suspect it’s something more interesting and remote than that—some kind of small desert shack between Bravery and Self-Soothing." – Peter Bach (@lyst.bsky.social)

the way the sea still lies there, still being the sea

Nemo

Today at dawn, an Australian radio station interviewed me about the Sea Library. The show will be up in a month or so, but I am already grateful to the starry cosmos for connecting the dots in the most unexpected ways ✨

This Nov marks 500 years since the first book in Latvian was printed. To celebrate, the National Library invites Latvians to join a photo activity “My Bookshelf”. Today I took mine, with Nemo 🐾 For 10 years I’ve been collecting books about the sea – building my Sea Library, now around 1,000 books