The Camont Journals Podcast with Kate Hill

Almanac for Belonging Notes: September 28, 2025. It must be time for my annual viewing of Agnès Varda’s documentary film, Les Glaneurs et La Glaneuse (2000). This morning Maire-Pierre, one of my neighbors, wrote us all via our neighborhood What’s App group to ask if we wanted to remasser—harvest some apples from our other neighbor’s orchard. She said there were both Canada Gris and Granny’s up for...

Welcome to my new podcast, a hybrid of voice overs from my writings on The Camont Journals on Substack and some sound poems of life in the rural slow lane of Gascony. While there will always be a free newsletter monthly, and thus a free monthly podcast, most of the others will be for paid subscribers as an additional love note of time to share with my faithful supporting subscribers. Interested in...

Welcome to what’s next at the Camont Journals! And why an Almanac for Belonging? An almanac (also spelled almanack and almanach ) is a regularly published listing of a set of current information about one or multiple subjects. It includes information like weather forecasts, farmers' planting dates, tide tables, and other tabular data often arranged according to the calendar. Celestial figures and...

Champetre: A love affair with color and French light. When I first started this run of French country-infused writing, declaring that “Champêtre: a French Field Guide” would be my leitmotif for the next year or so, I browsed through some of my favorite French paintings that influenced my early life as an art student—those Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, les Fauvists , les Nabi , and other...

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