Writer Between Worlds

Soulful writing about humans and places

Category: GERMAN

Carpathian cow-keeper

Come, come look at the cows, he says, just cross this little brook, don’t worry it is not too cold, and never mind this blue rope here, I will untie it in no time. I wrap it ‘round the bushes so the cows think it’s electric and don’t get away I tend to about 20…
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11 million electric bikes

The age of sweat is over. The age of skid marks is here. Deep trenches crisscrossing the country. Every which way, everyone’s rushing – each one of us thinking that we can squeeze more life into that cracked hourglass: 61 seconds to the minute (going on 62), can pedal faster than the rest and come…
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TIMISOARA23: 23 Secrets – a FAPA Book Award Medalist!

Dear friends, I have just received word that our storytelling travel guide TIMISOARA23: 23 Secrets, which I co-authored with my wonderful photographer friend Claudia Tanasescu, is a medalist in the 2024 FAPA President’s Book Awards! The award “recognizes book publishing excellence and creativity in design, content, and production for authors and publishers.” There’s still time…
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As mourning follows night*

back home I sleep with my ears unplugged the windows flung wide open into the guzzling night I remain watchful here, in the places my people have – one by one –trickled into the fatty earth I dive into the holes they left – deep dark enticing pools of fresh darkness – I eavesdrop: the…
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Quote of the day

“It may be that in cultures with much longer and varied literary histories than our own, cultures that revere writers and where intellectuals are not regarded as enemies of the people, in cultures where the neoliberal fantasy of isolated self-creation has less appeal, the vicissitudes of life and their representations in a novel are seen…
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(Be)longing

belonging is not something you do. it is something that is done to you as early as your mother’s womb before it cramps and convulses and rips out its own lining to reveal breath. belonging is not something you chose. it is something the not-you chooses to surround you with, so your voice, screaming, can…
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Quote of the day

“Although the ego center of our language center prefers defining our self as individual and solid, most of us are aware that we are made up of trillions of cells, gallons of water, and ultimately everything about us exists in a constant and dynamic state of activity. My left hemisphere had been trained to perceive…
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Quote of the day

“Our ideas – and hence the principles which are stitched together from them – are answers to questions, and hence they are only as good as the questions that have helped in their ‘excavation’ and formation. (…) Modern philosophy (…) has tended to make tyrants and false ‘gods’ of ideas. Idea-ism is the most common…
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Quote of the day

“Modernity is a great contradiction, consisting on the one hand of the unprecedented technological and administrative harnessing of corporeal powers and on the other hand of a plethora of souls in disintegration, the weakened personalities of men and women who are ‘no longer (being) certain of the sources of integrity’.” W. Cristaudo – Religion, Redemption…
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Today

be quiet with me after the rain in the rejuvenated world count all the fallen petals bask in the timorous sun the bulbous wet sweetness of soon-to-be-fruit the snail’s past trailing behind him like a wedding gown kneel down, put your good ear to the ground be silent listen to the breathing the throbbing this…
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Quote of the day

“What we experience today as acceleration is only one of the symptoms of temporal dispersal. (…) Time is lacking a rhythm that would provide order, and thus it falls out of step. (…) The feeling that life is accelerating is really the experience of a time that is whizzing without a direction. (…) Life is…
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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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