And thanks to you both I am setting out on my own journey. 🙂

“It’s the library of the sea.”

“The sea goes everywhere.” Sena Jeter Naslund “Ahab’s Wife or, The Star-Gazer”

my world is full of dragonflies right now. by the river, by the sea, in the garden, in the streets

Happy to announce a new long-term project based in slow time, snail mail &love for handwriting & the sea “Write a Letter to the Sea”. Katrīna Ģelze’s beautiful illustration will be sent as a postcard to those who participate. First letters published on sea-library.com beachbooks.blog/2025/05/23/w...

The indigenous Mollo women of West Timor use their looms to both spiritually and literally block mining companies in environmental protests to protect their natural surroundings. During protests, hundreds of women reportedly occupied mining sites for months on end #WomensArt

we probably have wild boars by the river. which is interesting. a couple of places look like this for the first time in a decade – as if someone has been searching for their lost car keys…

had a check-up x-ray yesterday. another month of no running, no jumping, no long walks. our lifestyle is broken into pieces. healing with books. both of us. good news – the fracture is growing new bone cells. it just needs more time.

“I didn’t really think through what a lighthouse keeper actually did. I was attracted by the romantic notion of sitting on a rock, writing haikus & dashing off the occasional watercolour.” —Peter Hill in the @lrb.co.uk 16 & 17 August is #InternationalLighthouseWeekend www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v1...

Anna and Nemo (with a broken paw just looking no running)

5 of 10 biographical fairytales have been published. It’s a weird way to retell my own memoir, and it feels liberating to weave some magic into it all. It truly was a magical upbringing – surrounded by artists, actors, architects, all building the worlds they believed in: sealibrary.substack.com

goodmorning Sunday

riverside selfie

A very good decision I made this spring was to subscribe to Oceanographic, a magazine I somehow didn’t know about before. Three issues have already arrived, and the fourth is on its way – for Sea Library readers and me to explore

Friday, here we come!

I never know if a new letter will arrive or if this initiative will stop by itself – until I open my letterbox and find another Letter to the Sea inside. This is the 11th one in a row, arriving all the way from Montreal, Canada! Each week I publish a new one here: sea-library.com/2025/09/10/0...

I never know if a new letter will arrive or if this initiative will stop by itself – until I open my letterbox and find another Letter to the Sea inside. This is the 11th one in a row, arriving all the way from Montreal, Canada! Each week I publish a new one here: sea-library.com/2025/09/10/0...

Mary Oliver, who would have been 90 today, on the meaning of life www.themarginalian.org/2020/09/08/m...

Towards Cornwall, from Devon. @sealibrary.bsky.social

my beginner dahlias have lost their minds

Yes, yes, and yes! Nemo and I were the only winners of a giveaway from the whole world, and now we have everything: 13 longlisted books, a very special Booker Prize tote bag, a magical notebook and ink pen from Choosing Keeping in London, and a Fortnum & Mason hamper. How cool is that? #bookerprize

Yoko, Bruno, Bella, Rufus, Pepper… I still haven’t learned all the coastal villagers’ names after a decade, but I know all the dogs’ names. Evening stroll with Nemo.

“I woke in the middle of the night because you could hear the roar of the waves. You could see whitewater but not much else” - Janeanne Gilchrist on her nighttime shot of Thurso East, featured in the View From the Shoulder exhibition at Staunch Industries in Leith www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/ou...

visiting my dad’s plastic painting “The Sand Castle” (2012)

Sunday ✨

Well, this is quite a surprise – I’ve been included in Pastaiga Magazine’s list of Outstanding Women 2025 in the Media category, as editor of the Latvian Library Portal at the National Library of Latvia. Grateful to my dream workplace for a librarian–storyteller like me.

Well, this is quite a surprise – I’ve been included in Pastaiga Magazine’s list of Outstanding Women 2025 in the Media category, as editor of the Latvian Library Portal at the National Library of Latvia. Grateful to my dream workplace for a librarian–storyteller like me.

During the day I work at the National Library of Latvia. Today I stumbled upon the spirit of librarians.

Can I eat them? Hard to resist.

“Is this, I wonder, the reason for the arrival of dolphins, who dance in a close network just beneath the sea.” 10th letter to the sea is written by Jackie from Shoreham, West Sussex, England: sea-library.com/2025/09/03/0...

We went to the bog to search for the Milky Way and found stars, the northern lights, and a honey-orange moon.

Lazing around on the beach, end of #August #reading #dog

Calling all fellow lovers of science and weird, wondrous natural history art: Behold these psychedelic fishes from the world's first encyclopedia of marine life illustrated in color, 300 years old: www.themarginalian.org/2020/08/15/l...

new letter to the sea (nearly) every Wednesday on my catalogue sea-library.com. tomorrow I’ll publish the 10th! first milestone in this journey. meanwhile on Sea Library’s (b)log I’m stopping after each 7 to look back at the seven seas. themes, voices, moods. anthropology of the sea.

goodmorning from my secret garden

The last sunset of a beautiful summer.

wonderful name for a dog

My Letter from August: beachbooks.blog/2025/08/30/l...

#tidelines “The things we notice in puddles and streams can be just as profound and helpful to understanding what is happening, as those that might be spotted from a vessel in mid-Atlantic.” - Tristan Gooley “How to Read Water” sea-library.com/2021/11/04/5...

Tiaki, guardian of the sea

“The colour of the sea shows us the limits of language and also the limits of our seeing, shaped as that is by the words we use to name things. It shows us how words both reveal and conceal the world.” - Samantha Clark

Land and Sea in Dog’s eyes. Stillness and Movement.

Where do all the Letters to the Sea arrive? In this yellow post box. Photos from a beautiful day by Fiona Middleton. sea-library.com/category/cur...

Ernst Haeckel’s Sublime Drawings of Flora and Fauna: The Beautiful Scientific Drawings That Influenced Europe’s Art Nouveau Movement (1889)

"The sea itself is ever-changing. Just like me." "Write a Letter to the Sea" is such a rewarding initiative. I never know who will be next, or what he or she will say to the sea. Madara is my former colleague, I’m so glad to have librarians on this handwritten ship: sea-library.com/2025/08/27/0...