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news
August 22nd, 2022 - new roads to old destinations
Hey guys,
If this were a monthly newsletter, it'd be one week and nine months late. But it's a decidedly fickle newsletter, so it's right on time. Much has happened. Too much to tell. Let me boil it down to something digestible:
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the book
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Last autumn I went to a little Greek island in the Aegean to disconnect but couldn't work out how to sit still. So I wrote a book. Cow. It's a river of consciousness in the form of an 85,000-word love letter; a philosophical carnival; an absurdist travel memoir; an irreverent and humanistic societal and cultural critique; and pretty much anything else a literary hybrid can be. I'm looking for a publisher, so if you are one or know one or know something, let me know!
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Adiós, I'm a ghost between sheets, a note between keys, a god between prayers, a clown between costumes, a skipped gene between generations, a ripple between moods, a hummingbird between flaps, a temperature between seasons, half a half-life, February 29th, a grain falling through the hourglass, always departed, never landed.
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a decade on the road
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I have two birthdays, both in May. The day I was born, and the day I was reborn. Yuckedy-yikes, how corny. True though. May 16 is the day I started my second life. My life away from home to find the home within. Yikedy-yucks, that's even cornier. This year was my 10th second birthday. I celebrated the occasion by embarking on a new road to an old destination...
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full time artist
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...MilesAstray is my passion baby. It combines three loves of mine: travel, writing, and photography. A world, a pen, a camera. And I've come to realize that I have to give it my all. That's why I'm proud to announce that I am a fulltime, stay-at-home artist now. Just without the home, and without staying.
That means there has never been a better time to stop by my brand-new shop and support my creative self-employment and self-realization. Bring all your friends too! Here, take this coupon code to get 25 % off until September 22:
25%OFF
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new store, score
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Here's some shopping inspiration for you to put that coupon to good use:
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fine art
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a curated collection of small-numbered archival pigment prints on fine art paper
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glimpses
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photography and writing coalescing into a new art form, open and single editions
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summer summary
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Corona never went anywhere, but I did. Unspoken, but collectively agreed upon, we all stopped caring to one degree or another, in the very same untraceable moment earlier this year. And so I traveled, here, there, elsewhere. Cologne. Marseille. Annecy. Maastricht. And with my eyes well-fed and my heart even fatter, I pointed my itchy feet towards the end of the world at Cape Finisterre and walked some 250 miles along the Camino de Santiago.
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where to next
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I'm one step ahead of this newsletter. Last week, my time in Paris came to an end, and so "next" is now and now is here: Montreal. Trading one home for another. The next next is yet to be determined. Anything goes, and so do I.
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Au revoir,
Miles
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