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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“To pit oneself against the mountain is necessary for every climber; to pit oneself merely against other players, and make a race of it, is to reduce to the level of a game what is essentially an experience. (…) What he values is a task that, demanding of him all he has and is, absorbs…
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I don’t
Read more: I don’tI don’t have the right face for my feelings. I’m not beautiful. My features aren’t exquisite – soft, elegant, dainty – no, they are quite banal. I have a mean frown and people suspect coarseness inside indeed my core is hard and rough and uneven – like scars, dry and drying, like crackling scales. I…
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On the outside, looking in
Read more: On the outside, looking inThis, this, I tell myself, this see-through envelope of blueness that contains us, this fluid in which we move, this shallow film of sunlight collecting into magnanimous pools, rippling, cascading, eroding, building its deep dark wells of forgetfulness, turning our chunky limbs of flesh into ethereal shadows that precede us slanting, hovering, levitating, always one…
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In search of lost time…
Read more: In search of lost time…… my most recent contribution to the FB flash fiction group “Ficțiuni Reale” (Romanian only) can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/366117403460275/posts/9154969441241650/?comment_id=9154978477907413¬if_id=1682955213803360¬if_t=group_comment&ref=notif
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Easter itineraries – or in search of inspiration
Read more: Easter itineraries – or in search of inspirationNowhere else is the sweet stillness of spring and the cheerful chirruping of songbirds as soothing as in the Romanian countryside in those last quiet hours before Easter, at the foot of a mountain dotted with caves and age-old monasteries. We spent three days around the northern parts of Gorj and Valcea counties in southern…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“Men will always be what women choose to make them. If you wish then that they should be noble and virtuous, let women be taught what greatness of soul and virtue are. “ J.J. Rousseau – Discourse on the Arts and Sciences (1750)
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Watch for timelessness instead
Read more: Watch for timelessness insteadOriginally posted on Writer Between Worlds: a watch is a little glass prison for time – ? where the seconds serve a life sentence without the possibility of parole. ? people like to wear captive time around their wrist. when all the seconds are numbered and can never escape, they call the watch good. ?…
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Getting featured
Read more: Getting featuredDear friends, I’ve had some great #news today (literally): Our travel guide, #TIMISOARA23 – 23 Secrets You’ll Love About the City and the Romanian Banat was featured in not one, but two German-language newspapers! The Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung in Romania: and the Banater Post in München: Our “somewhat different travel guide” is, of course, available…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“What remained was the individual person, the human being – and nothing else. Everything had fallen away from him during those years: money, power, fame; nothing was certain for him anymore: not life, not health, not happiness; all had been called into question for him: vanity, ambition, relationships. Everything was reduced to bare existence. Burnt…
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Women, mothers and really old ladies
Read more: Women, mothers and really old ladiesNow that March 8 is behind us (a day also known as Woman’s Day or Mother’s Day in Romania and, yes, flowers are expected!), it is time to introduce you to another Romanian tradition. This time, we’re talking about a really old one, dating all the way back to the Romans: the Days of the…
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What an amazing weekend!
Read more: What an amazing weekend!Our storytelling travel guide #TIMISOARA23: 23 Secrets was launched on February 18th at the Cărtureşti bookstore in the throbbing heart of Timisoara – only one of the 140+ cultural events taking place this weekend in this year’s European Capital of Culture! (It is now sold out at Cărtureşti, but you can still find it on…
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