#sealibrary hashtag - Bluesky

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2 months ago

When I Grow Up: Taxidermist Mickel van Leeuwen of “Inside Out Animals” Almost twenty years ago, on July 21, 2006, a young humpback whale was discovered in the Gulf of Riga in the Baltic Sea, near the coast of Dunte, Latvia. The whale was already dead when it was broug…

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Paula Bardell-Hedley

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3 months ago

Farewell 2025 To those of you who subscribe to the new books and sea letters on sea-library.com but not to my blog at beachbooks.blog, you’re probably surprised – what’s this? Don’t worry. From now on, you’ll be…

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Paula Bardell-Hedley

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3 months ago

The Story of a postcard Today I received a postcard from Australia, which felt like a small wonder. There was no exact address on the envelope, yet it found its way to me nonetheless. If you were a postman, where would yo…

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Paula Bardell-Hedley

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3 months ago

“Sea Library in Jūrmala, Latvia, a family collection that is gaining worldwide fame” My true treasure chest is footnotes, acknowledgment sections, and bibliographies. At the very beginning of the Sea Library, these were my main ways of discovering sea-themed books and writers outsi…

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Paula Bardell-Hedley

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3 months ago

Letter from November Dear friend, On the first day of November, which was a Saturday, I walked for four hours with Nemo to the sea, along the beach and back home with a long detour. From November until April the beach …

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Paula Bardell-Hedley

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4 months ago

Interview for “Outsideleft Magazine” The iconic oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau once said: “The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one on its net of wonder forever.” Recently the “net of wonders” brought a…

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Paula Bardell-Hedley

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4 months ago

“The Year that Made Me” on ABC Radio National in Australia Just finished listening to Australia’s ABC Radio National program “The Year That Made Me”. I’m grateful for the invitation and the opportunity to share my story with the wonderful Julian Morrow. If…

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Paula Bardell-Hedley

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4 months ago

Letters to the Sea Written by Kids There are moments when you just melt into the warmth of the things happening around you. Yesterday, I received 29 letters from Shoreham Beach Primary School. Do you follow my regular Letter to the …

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Paula Bardell-Hedley

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4 months ago

Have You Heard the News Today? Recently, I talked with Marta about how I’m not goal-oriented by nature. I like to set goals, yes, but what truly matters to me is the process – the journey. Sometimes the more impossible a goal se…

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Paula Bardell-Hedley

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5 months ago

Letter from October October was a month of colours and light. A month of heightened senses, brought by the changing weather and the turning season. Soft, muddy ground underfoot, the smell of fallen and decaying leaves…

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Paula Bardell-Hedley

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5 months ago

My book contract is signed Do you ever write something down on a small piece of paper, fold it neatly, and hide it at the back of a notebook – or maybe between its pages – words that are like whispered wishes, sent to a fall…

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Paula Bardell-Hedley

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5 months ago

The Girl with the Blue Dog: My Fairytale Memoir is now complete. What’s next? One August weekend, I began publishing something that had been quietly growing in me for years – first as a memoir. But this winter, I set it deep into a drawer, too heavy to carry. When I opened t…

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Paula Bardell-Hedley

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5 months ago

The Girl with the Blue Dog: My Fairytale Memoir part 10 of 10 I have been publishing my fairytale memoir, The Girl with the Blue Dog, as a ten-part series on Substack. This is the last one. This memoir is not a straightforward retelling of my life, …

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Paula Bardell-Hedley

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5 months ago

The Girl with the Blue Dog: My Fairytale Memoir part 8 of 10 I have been publishing my fairytale memoir, The Girl with the Blue Dog, as a ten-part series on Substack. Two more tales to go! This memoir is not a straightforward retelling of my life, …

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Paula Bardell-Hedley

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6 months ago

Letter from September Dear friend,Our September began with a wish. Kristians wanted to see the Milky Way in the night sky, so on one of the first nights of September, the four of us set out for the nearest moss bog (800…

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Paula Bardell-Hedley

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6 months ago

The Girl with the Blue Dog: My Fairytale Memoir part 7 of 10 As I wrote before, I have begun publishing my fairytale memoir, The Girl with the Blue Dog, as a ten-part series on Substack. This memoir is not a straightforward retelling of my life, but a journe…

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Paula Bardell-Hedley

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6 months ago

The Girl with the Blue Dog: My Fairytale Memoir part 6 of 10 As I wrote before, I have begun publishing my fairytale memoir, The Girl with the Blue Dog, as a ten-part series on Substack. We are half-way there! This memoir is not a straightforward r…

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Paula Bardell-Hedley

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6 months ago

The Girl with the Blue Dog: My Fairytale Memoir part 5 of 10 As I wrote before, I have begun publishing my fairytale memoir, The Girl with the Blue Dog, as a ten-part series on Substack. We are half-way there! This memoir is not a straightforward r…

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Paula Bardell-Hedley

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6 months ago

The Girl with the Blue Dog: My Fairytale Memoir part 4 of 10 As I wrote before, I have begun publishing my fairytale memoir, The Girl with the Blue Dog, as a ten-part series on Substack. This memoir is not a straightforward retelling of my life, but a journe…

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Paula Bardell-Hedley

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6 months ago

Outstanding Latvian women 2025 Typing the title itself feels funny – and yet, that’s exactly what it is. Yesterday I was told that I am one of the Outstanding Latvian Women 2025, a list compiled annually for nearly ten years by …

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Paula Bardell-Hedley

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7 months ago

Tidelines #2 Each day in the Sea Library, a line drifts ashore. I pick it up and read. A sentence from a book, a thought about the sea, a fragment of language that feels like a tide mark left behind. I call the…

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Paula Bardell-Hedley

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7 months ago

The Girl with the Blue Dog: My Fairytale Memoir part 3 of 10 As I wrote before, I have begun publishing my fairytale memoir, The Girl with the Blue Dog, as a ten-part series on Substack. This memoir is not a straightforward retelling of my life, but a journe…

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Paula Bardell-Hedley

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7 months ago

Letter from August August is the month of falling stars – when you make a wish, when you remember how to dream, when you walk your own path and let the world answer the rhythm of your heartbeat. In our garden, dahlia…

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Paula Bardell-Hedley

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7 months ago

A Sea Library Pilgrimage: The Second Log Once a year the waters of the Daugava river are lowered, revealing the hidden riverbed, and people walk across to St. Meinhard’s Island. A path that is usually water becomes stones and sand. I walk…

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Paula Bardell-Hedley

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7 months ago

The Girl with the Blue Dog: My Fairytale Memoir part 2 of 10 As I wrote yesterday, I have begun publishing my fairytale memoir, The Girl with the Blue Dog, as a ten-part series on Substack. And because today is Sunday, you already have the chance to step int…

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Paula Bardell-Hedley

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7 months ago

The Girl with the Blue Dog: My Fairytale Memoir Begins on Substack This weekend I began publishing something that has been quietly growing in me for years: first as a memoir. But this winter I set it deep into a drawer, too heavy to carry. When I opened the drawer…

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Paula Bardell-Hedley

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7 months ago