-
Ancient words of counsel?
Read more: Ancient words of counsel?“It may be said that every individual man and all men in common aim at a certain end which determines what they choose and what they avoid. This end, to sum it up briefly, is HAPPINESS AND ITS CONSTITUENTS. (…) We may define happiness as prosperity combined with virtue; or as independence of life; or…
-
Sun gone missing
Read more: Sun gone missingPierdut soare. Declar vital. Dacă l-a văzut cineva, să-l trimită puțin și încoace, please. Până atunci, încălzesc în palmă imaginile astea încărcate de lumină, din noiembrie 2015.
-
Litoral final
Read more: Litoral finalmi-e sufletul greu, submers în stânjeni de fluid clar, oceanic, cu peşti. apa mării stă oglindă în dimineaţa asta fără adieri, luciul ei printre pini şi ambarcaţiuni e tras în foiţă de aur, iar tihna de început de lume a frumuseţii mă apasă cu desăvârşite sfârşituri. valul e ceva care îţi dă speranţa ciclicităţii,…
-
Path through my childhood
Read more: Path through my childhoodI walked the winding path today around the apartment buildings right through my childhood. Everything smelled the same. The big white lilies gave off a fragrance of early evening, the sunset was in its incipient stages. The heat bearable, like me. Summer petering out. I leapt from one slab of stone to…
-
On the future of education
Read more: On the future of educationMotto: “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn – and change.” (Carl Rogers) I’m a structured learner. I admit it. I like engorging information, reflecting upon it, and structuring it mentally or on paper. But it is only when I manage to enrich that information with something…
-
My feline challenge
Read more: My feline challengeThe lascivious cat in the dimly lit window, first floor, across the small garden. Its stare nonchalant, immovable, intent, drills into me all the important questions about who and why and what am I going to do about everything. I have a very distinct feeling the cat and I have been facing off on…
-
Home
Read more: HomeI walked the winding path today around the apartment buildings right through my childhood. Everything smelled the same. The big white lilies gave off a fragrance of early evening, the sunset was in its incipient stages. The heat bearable, like me. Summer petering out. I leapt from one slab of stone to…
-
The heart of summer
Read more: The heart of summer“The morning is full of storm in the heart of summer. The clouds travel like white handkerchiefs of good-bye, the wind, traveling, waving them in its hands. The numberless heart of the wind beating above our loving silence. Orchestral and divine, resounding among the trees like a language full of wars and songs. (…) Her…
-
Toni Erdmann – A Must See
Read more: Toni Erdmann – A Must SeeToni Erdmann, which has just opened in Germany, is a bizarre independent film that will make you embrace Romania with all you’ve got, and which also manages to lampoon the trappings of corporate life just the right amount. (The impossible loneliness, the ridiculous helplessness of wrestling with a dress that’s too tight amidst the barren luxury…
-
Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the dayThe tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less. Vaclav Havel – Letters to Olga (1988), p. 237
-
Periplu românesc 2016 – Romania 2016 – Rumänien 2016
Read more: Periplu românesc 2016 – Romania 2016 – Rumänien 2016Munţii Cernei – Defileul Dunării (la Cazane, de pe apă) – Sibiu şi Făgăraşii cu creste înzăpezite – Sighişoara – Salina Praid – Secuime – Cheile Bicazului şi retur. Pe scurt: am fript slană la foc în munţi, am mâncat direct la o stână, pe Dunăre căpitanul/ghid i-a lăsat pe copii să ţină ei cârma bărcii cu…
-
Subscribe
Subscribed
Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
Writer Between Worlds 