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{Jane Austen First Editions: How Much is Yours Worth?}

Just in case you were interested to know how much your first editions of Jane Austen's works were worth, this video featuring Adam Douglas, Senior Specialist in Early Literature at Peter Harrington, a rare book dealer in London, introduces a selection of Jane Austen’s first editions and explains how bindings affect value. I just love how he handles the books.

{Midway: Message From the Gyre}

I wonder if there may be some value in simply honoring this in-between place, acknowledging the space of open possibility where we stand. This is the moment of dissolution before the new form emerges, the imaginal space of potential from which all else will flow. As the marine scientist Sylvia Earle says: the next ten years are the most important in the next ten thousand.

                    

Go to the video in this link.

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{My Top Professional Icon: Henrietta Spencer-Churchill}

Watch: Lady Henrietta talks about Blenheim Palace in "Moment of Luxury" TV video

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{Comfort in a Rustic Style House}

As Britannica says the Rustic Style, in decorative arts, is any ruralizing influence; more precisely, a type of furniture made of wood or metal, the main components of which are carved and fretted to resemble the branches of trees. Stemming from the idealization of nature and the “simple life” that occurred in the mid-18th century, the vogue for this kind of product persisted well into the 20th century. It was especially popular in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria. It naturally endeared itself to the British Victorians, with their passion for the picturesque, and was also generally admired in the United States, where it is often termed “Adirondack furniture” . 

     Let see the following cozy house in the English Countryside...

{Pictures Source: The English Home Magazine UK}