The Raptorial

The Raptorial

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Issue 33, January 2025

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Mek
Jan 19, 2025
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blue and brown wooden chairs on beach during daytime, with a folded umbrella beside them

Happy New Year!

As you read this, I am likely doing one (or more) of the following:

  • packing

  • driving

  • solving an eye-spy

  • wrestling a tent pole

  • hammering a peg

  • exploring a seaside town

  • lighting up a Trangia

  • drawing

  • pushing the plunger through the chamber of an Aeropress (there’s book title in that! Look out, Olga Tokarczuk!)

  • flipping pancakes

  • playing bananagrams

  • reading Anaïs Nin’s A Spy in the House of Love (1954).

It depends on how far we are into our third annual January camping trip.

It is quite unlike me to send out an issue with so many days in the month to spare. Not quite new year, new me, more — new zine, specific date for zine actions to start, new edition of The Raptorial published ahead of said start.

Thanks for reading The Raptorial! I’d love it if you shared it with friends!

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