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Have you?
Read more: Have you?Have you completed the sacraments of life? Have you bowed to the April sunrise? Have you worshipped the brightness and the honeyed light dripping on the fresh leaves? Have you helped a blind mole across the gravel road and kept it safe from the fury of bikers? Have you touched bark or beetle and gladly…
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Springtide
Read more: SpringtideHeat. April heat. Deep, penetrating. This afterwinter sky – unfamiliar, molten, aglow – splurges on timid leaves, permeates clothes,and burrows into skin. Out by the river I am sitting on a log. The gulls have just taken off, shrieking, treading water, flapping their wings against the dormant, mirror-cold, reflected images of trees. Seconds later, suspended,…
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Quote(s) of the day
Read more: Quote(s) of the day“There’s no greater sin than frittering your life away, Vadya. They don’t have the remotest notion that the goal of human existence might be something other than to live as long as possible, in as much comfort as possible. (…) “What these youngsters want is to be released from triviality, to escape from boredom. (…)…
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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“For a long time we believed that machines were man’s instrument, but it’s now clear that men were the instruments that paved the way for machines. The transition will happen slowly: machines won’t subject men to their rule, but they’ll enter man, like an urge, an intimate aspiration. Even now, becoming a flawless machine is…
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Beyond Words
Read more: Beyond WordsDear friends, Beyond Words Literary Magazine will be publishing my flash fiction ‘Fish’ in its May 2024 issue. My heartfelt thanks to Gal Slonim and the Editorial Board! You can order physical copies here. A quick preview of my work is available below: Hope you enjoy.
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In search of „Moorish” culture: My spring ramble through Andalusia
Read more: In search of „Moorish” culture: My spring ramble through AndalusiaLadies and gents… (drum roll), the English version is here. Enjoy! Day 1. The blessings of individual travel It’s not every year that we are gifted with additional time. But a leap year calls for a leap of faith, and so, I leap out of the plane from Munich to Málaga in southern Spain avid…
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Times
Read more: TimesAre you disillusioned because the world has gotten worse? Or has the world gotten worse because you’re disillusioned? Was it ever beautiful, spellbinding, full of magic, fresh, or were your eyes just kinder then? Were you under the spell of youth? Did you believe in fairies and princes and happy ends, and the pale pinkness…
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Frühling in Andalusien
Read more: Frühling in AndalusienI thought I’d try something new today: My Andalusian travel essay in German for my German-speaking followers ;-). It’s a first for me, but here it is: Auf den Spuren Maurischer Kultur Tag 1. Der Genuss des individuellen Reisens Die Leute um mich herum schauen auf ihre Handys. Ich schaue aus dem Fenster. Mir hat das…
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The fighter jets
Read more: The fighter jetsIt’s every day now. Can you hear the air shake? Several times a day those metal birds, sharp-beaked, slice a thin gash through the arched canopy of blue under which silent people walk (or walk their dogs), their gaze, as always, buried in the mud, the soft footpath, the yellowed hay – last year’s grass…
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Quiet
Read more: QuietI have nothing to say. Today, I just want to be quiet, enjoy the luxury of a light breeze in the dry reeds, the popping of their ochre in the sun, the crunching of white pebbles underfoot in the black mire by the lake. Today I want to watch the empty windowsills and the roofs…
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Conquest manual
Read more: Conquest manual– a poem – Step 1. Make people lonely. Step 2. Give lonely people a machine that talks. Tell them jokes. Make them laugh. Free of charge. Step 3. Tweak said machine so that it tells these people only what they like to hear. Step 4. Let it offer answers, plenty of answers while memorizing…
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