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Anna Iltnere

@sealibrary.bsky.social

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creator of an ongoing artwork - Sea Library - one thousand books about the sea, by the sea, for everyone to borrow and read writing a book on sea libraries and represented by the Stimola Literary Studio books http://sea-library.com blog beachbooks.blog

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · Jun 23

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...

Call to sea community around the world: Write a Letter to the Sea

Seven years ago, on June 4, a small room near the Baltic Sea opened its doors to stories about salt water, sea creatures, adventurous spirits, and deep secrets. The Sea Library began with books — a…

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 1d

A beautiful piece.

It had been my kingfisher summer. Suddenly, after 12 summers, they allowed me to see – and hear – them every day above the black river canal. Like in a dream.

Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 1d

‘For several minutes I stood and stared as they looped, settled, flew again, feeling like I was in a dream.’

An unexpected encounter: As Jill Hopper walks by the River Wandle, electric blue shoots across the water www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/jill...

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 2d

harvest moon brought us here 13 years ago. on a dune peninsula between river and sea

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 3d

her highness

Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 4d

a different kind of home

Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 4d

good morning, sun and swans

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 5d

Mid-Mediterranean calm.

Video by Given Rozell.

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 5d

It might read like a fantasy and yet everything is based on true events and coincidences and ideas. And the Blue Dog comes from my dad's, Kristaps Ģelzis painting "Walking With My Blue Dog" that is very important to me.

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 5d

this wondrous and weird and wild journey of telling my tale in fairytales to get it all out of my bloodstream and let it flow. five years of carrying the plotline around and filling notebooks. enough. 2 more weekend left. you can read them on my blog and my substack too.

Paula Bardell-Hedley @bookjotter.bsky.social · 5d

beachbooks.blog/2025/10/05/the-girl-with-the-blue-dog-my-fairytale-memoir-part-8-of-10/ via @sealibrary.bsky.social #SeaLibrary #books #reading

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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Dr Osnat Katz Moon 🌙🟣 @astrosnat.bsky.social · 25d

Does anyone want beautiful historical depictions of celestial phenomena? Anyone? Well, here you go publicdomainreview.org/collection/f...

Flowers of the Sky

Depictions spanning almost a whole millennium — in chronological order — of comets, meteors, meteorites and shooting stars.

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 7d

good morning, October

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 7d

rest in peace, beautiful soul
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FAQs with Jane: What is your favorite animal?

YouTube video by Dr. Jane Goodall & the Jane Goodall Institute USA

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Philip Hoare @philiphoare.bsky.social · 8d

observer.co.uk/culture/book... my review of Jenny Uglow's wonderful new book... @faberbooks.bsky.social

Gilbert White’s world of wonder | The Observer

Jenny Uglow's account of a year in the life of an 18th-century curate and his garden is a glorious celebration of curiosity and nature

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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social · 8d

"‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”

- Voltaire

[via @faudio.bsky.social]

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 8d

he had a car crash 9 years ago and that has left a deep scar in all our lives especially his but now he has a dog who is visiting him often

Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 8d

thank you!!!

Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 8d

a diary of sorts, to keep a track of each passing month. a letter from September is now on beachbooks.blog/2025/10/01/l...

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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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 8d

blissful and brisk morning before the day sets sail

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 10d

I wrote this gem of an article for @theguardian.com many moons ago and it finally published.

There is a 30 min companion documentary that is 2 years in the making that you absolutely must see 🪺 👇

www.theguardian.com/global/ng-in...

Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 26d

This is beautiful. The salt marsh sparrow may well go extinct in a few decades, but these people are keeping them afloat for now. 🐦🪺

‘A little bit of joy’: can tiny rafts save endangered sparrows from rising seas?

In Rhode Island, a small team of researchers and volunteers is fighting, against the odds, to save saltmarsh sparrows from extinction as their chicks drown in ever higher tides

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 9d

You find a barnacled buoy on the beach, think about bringing it home to the Sea Library, and instinctively put your hat on its orange top.

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 10d

wonderful! I can share the postal address, if anyone is interested to write a letter, just let me know.

here are the first 11: sea-library.com/category/cur...

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Russ King @russwrites.bsky.social · 11d

This looks like a beautiful project to contribute to - especially because I have just finished reading Sea Bean by Sally Huband - a beautiful book on beachcombing.

Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · Jun 23

Call to sea community around the world: Write a Letter to the Sea

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 11d

so beautiful

Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 11d

thank you, Russ !

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 11d

what do you see above the sea? 😑

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 12d

read this

Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 12d

This is the story of my daughter Milly and Lyme Disease. There was no rash, no "summer flu", NHS blood tests negative. And she's been ill for a quarter of her life.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Thank you @lymediseaseuk.bsky.social & @lymeresourcecentre.bsky.social for raising UK awareness.

As my daughter got sicker and sicker, our quest for answers dragged on. How did we all miss the bacteria taking over her body?

I write about nature, but when Milly got sick with a mystery illness, it never occurred to me that a long-forgotten tick bite could be the cause

www.theguardian.com

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