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Xenia Tran

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Netherlands

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https://tranature.com

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Poetry, Nonfiction, Historical Fiction

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October 2018

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Xenia Tran is an artist, linguist and poet who lives in the Scottish Highlands with her husband and adopted border collie. She writes in Dutch and English and her poetry has appeared on television, in videos, a haiku calendar, online journals, anthologies and magazines. She blogs at https://tranature.com and publishes her collections in aid of good causes.

'Between Heather and Grass - Poems and Photographs Filled with Love, Hope and Whippets' is available in paperback, ebook and Kindle editions. This collection has been especially created to help raise funds for Children with Cancer UK, in memory of her nephew Jamie Baker and in support of animal rehoming charities.

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	Sharing our Horizon: A Journey Through the Scottish Highlands with Two Adopted Whippets 4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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We are taking a short blogging break to enjoy the current fine weather and will be back on Wednesday 22 October 2025. Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday and a peaceful rest of the week, with love from Xenia and Bria xxx Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr. Wordless Wednesday Xingfu Mama’s Whatsoever is … Continue reading "Wordless Wednesday: Sweet October" Read more of this blog post »

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To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

by John O'Donohue

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Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

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Xenia Tran rated a book really liked it The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A beautifully written book where David Abram takes you by the hand and shows us how the development of our alphabet and language gradually disconnected us from the language of earth, river and sky, what we can learn from indigenous languages and ritu ...more
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Xenia Tran rated a book it was amazing Storm Pegs: A Life Made in Shetland by Jen Hadfield	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A beautifully written account of the author's love for the place and people of Shetland where she's made her home, incorporating many Shetland words (with a helpful glossary at the back) which so aptly describe the landscape, weather and wildlife enc ...more
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Xenia Tran rated a book liked it Kokoro: Hints & Echos Of Japanese Inner Life (Classics of Japanese Literature) by Lafcadio Hearn	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
An interesting collection of essays on customs, beliefs and storytelling from ancient Japan, organised in a somewhat eclectic manner and without page numbers on the contents page, which made it difficult to refer back and forth.
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