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Aug 3, 2024 | 
essexlive.news | Jessica Lee
A beautiful Essex commuter village is full of stunning walks, pubs, a church and acres of countryside for its visitors to explore. And it's also steeped in history paying homage to England's oldest racecourse dating back to the 17th century. Galleywood Racecourse was a right-handed loop that rounded out at two miles, starting at the Grandstand and consisting of nine hurdles and a water jump.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
thecommononline.org | Jessica Lee
By JESSICA J. LEE Reviewed by KATIE NOAH GIBSON“These are essays written for a world in motion,” writes Jessica J. Lee in the introduction to her exquisite, haunting third book, Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging, a collection of 14 essays examining the movement—voluntary, forced and accidental—of people and plants across landscapes.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
bookbrowse.com | Jessica Lee |Rose Rankin
BookBrowse:
Essays examining what it means to truly belong to a place, seen through the experience of plants that spread from their original homes.
We so often think of plants as stationary creatures—they are rooted in place, so to speak—that it can be easy to overlook the biological ingenuity that allows them to thrive in many locations at once.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
montrealgazette.com | Jessica Lee |David Suzuki |Melanie Florence |Bernie Goedhart
Winter is technically over and we can look forward to planting gardens soon and spending time outdoors without bulky coats. Here are some picture books to help children get in the mood. Author of the article: • Special to Montreal Gazette • • You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through our links on this page.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
swwimmiami.substack.com | Jessica Lee |Gulf Coast
It's #tbt! Enjoy this great one from SWWIM Every Day's archives!Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedWhen does cohabitation become co-possession? You bat my hand away from my own fingers, tell me to quit picking at the layer of skin I’m peelingback from the bed around my thumb. I nod submissive, suck the blood, then sit on my own hands—a show of moderation. Like a child, I pay pretend reverenceas if you were a parent, my part-creator.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
newyorkfolk.com | James White |Jessica Lee |Mark Doty
Our minds these days are so easily distracted that noticing what’s right in front of us can be hard. Yes, the sun might be glancing off the snowdrifts, and the birds may be chirping away with blithe exuberance. But stress, grief, and anxiety—or, alternatively, excitement for the future—can make us tune out the images, fragrances, and noises at the edge of our consciousness. But being attentive to the world is both possible and crucial.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
canadiangeographic.ca | Jessica Lee
Excerpted from Dispersals by Jessica J. Lee. Copyright © 2024 Jessica J. Lee. Published by Hamish Hamilton Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited. Reproduced by arrangement with the Published. All rights reserved. In 2011, a team of researchers uncovered a series of fossils at the Bailey Quarry near Windsor, Nova Scotia. The remnants of charred twigs were no larger than two centimetres long and surrounded with gypsum.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
mykawartha.com | Jessica Lee
Berlin is a city of stone on sand. Cobbles cross the pavements at irregular angles. Grey, russet, pewter, brown. And for much of the year, the skies are the same. Silver and unsaturated. But I came to associate Berlin instead with a particular shade of pink: fuchsia sunsets, the ripple of cherry through white ice cream. Spring in the city was coloured with flirtation, like bubble gum or confetti. Clouds of blossoms covered the trees.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
thestar.com | Jessica Lee
Berlin is a city of stone on sand. Cobbles cross the pavements at irregular angles. Grey, russet, pewter, brown. And for much of the year, the skies are the same. Silver and unsaturated. But I came to associate Berlin instead with a particular shade of pink: fuchsia sunsets, the ripple of cherry through white ice cream. Spring in the city was coloured with flirtation, like bubble gum or confetti. Clouds of blossoms covered the trees.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
quillandquire.com | Jessica Lee
Jessica J. Lee’s debut picture book, A Garden Called Home, is a love story for children of the diaspora. This picture book explores the precious bond between a mother and daughter, and also asks, where is home when we are estranged from it? And, for many third culture kids, what is this home they’ve never experienced? Through Mama’s eyes, we witness the darkness and alienation that winter brings, and how far away from home she feels.
