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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“A century ago, the physical environment was for most of humanity that of the natural world, with its rhythms and cycles, its organic, ever-growing and ever-changing interdependent life, a world to which it seemed intuitively obvious that we belong; now it has been replaced for many by an unyielding, inert, confrontational environment of non-living surfaces,…
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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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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“In order to stay healthy, our nervous systems and psyches need to face challenges and to succeed in meeting those challenges. When this need is not met, or when we are challenged and cannot triumph, we end up lacking vitality and are unable to fully engage with life.” Peter A. Levine – Waking the Tiger,…
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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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Confirm humanity
Read more: Confirm humanity‘Confirm humanity,’ the website urges and presents me with a checkbox to tick. I’d simply wanted to treat myself to a daily poem, that’s why I’m signing up for their newsletter, but, at this point, I am confronted with an existential issue: A. Is my humanity confined to that little checkbox? Is that what it…
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Good tidings
Read more: Good tidingsToday, I’ve had the first piece of good news after a week of battling the flu: Parfumul Evei, a novella I wrote in Romanian has been shortlisted for the Romanian National Literary Network award 2024. I’ll leave you with the happy announcement (plus the glorious Upper Bavarian countryside), while I go back to making teas…
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Primates
Read more: PrimatesThis is a cynical little poem inspired by an actual news story I heard on the radio today. I don’t have all the facts, so the piece is slightly fictionalized and may not be entirely accurate, but it seemed like an interesting cautionary fable. There is some profanity and sarcasm. Please don’t get triggered, this…
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