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This blog takes its title from the fact that kindness originally meant being kin, or kindred, or of the same kind – a reminder that we are all humankind. I post regularly on Friday. Enter your email address below to Follow and receive each post direct to your inbox. A Few Kind Words is now also on Substack if you prefer to read it there: https://substack.com/@jamiejauncey.
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Time machine
Orkney is a gentle, green time machine. While the waters around it carry stories of sea-faring and exploration and the drama of two world wars, the land – low-lying pasture pocked with shallow scoops of water – tells a much … Continue reading →
Posted in Knowledge, Landscape, Memory, Nature, Scotland, Stories, Travel
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Tagged aurochs, burial chamber, ceremony, Kirkwall, MAes Howe, mid-winter, neolithic era, Orkney, pyramids, Ring of Brodgar, runes, Skara Brae, standing stones, Stonehenge, Vikings
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