CNN reports on the latest Italian government effort to remove Mauro Morandi from his hermit life on the island of Budelli.
URL: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/budelli-hermit-eviction-morandi/index.html
Tamsin Calidasa’s island solitude
In a Guardian piece titled “I ran away to a remote Scottish isle. It was perfect,” Tamsin Calidasa describes her discovery of solitude and the wildness of nature on a remote Scottish island. Her narrative is unique, compelling, and enlightening, and her cultivation of relationship with nature is a key element in her coming to embrace solitude. Excerpt from Calidasa’s book, I Am an Island.
Four Scottish hermits
The Guardian offers a picture essay on four Scotland hermits, in “Splendid Isolation: In Search of Scotland’s Hermits.” Two of the hermits may be familiar: Jake Williams and Sara Maitland; the other two less familiar: Davy McDonald and Ken Smith.
Kamo no Chomei: Hojoki (new tranlation)
Japan Times reviews a new translation of Kamo no Chomei’s classic Hojoki. Translator Matthew Stavros subtitles the work: “A Hermit’s Hut as Metaphor.”
URL: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/06/20/books/hojoki-a-hermits-hut-as-metaphor/
Robert Runyon, Arkansas hermit
Daily Mail profiles 71-year old Robert Runyon of Arkansas. The byline: “Man who dropped out of medical school to move to the woods in 1974 where he raised six children tells [Daily Mail journalist] Ben Fogle he’s STILL building his home 40 years later despite falling off the roof and going blind in one eye.”