Writer Between Worlds

Soulful writing about humans and places

Category: Cultură

  • O carte

    lumina slabă a unui felinar picură coniac pe o mână de frunze lucioase în rest, doar glasul răguşit şi distant al unui radiou străbate bezna bezna asta groasă şi caldă ca o plăcintă apetisantă cu cremă, sâmburele de dinăuntrul pralinei e rotund şi tare mi se rostogoleşte în gură, în jurul limbii, ca odinioară săruturile…

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  • Revisiting the Stoics

    Well, you know what they say, some things never change. Anxious, dissatisfied, relationship not going well? So what else is new? I’ve recently come across the following, from Epictetus: “There are things which are within our power, and there are things which are beyond our power.” (…) “Within our power are opinion, aim, desire, aversion,…

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  • 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…

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  • Litoral final

    mi-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,…

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  • Path through my childhood

    I 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…

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  • My feline challenge

    The 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…

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  • Home

    I 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…

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  • 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…

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  • Toni Erdmann – A Must See

    Toni 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…

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  • Periplu românesc 2016 – Romania 2016 – Rumänien 2016

    Munţii 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…

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  • Romania – Primeval beauty

    Romania, Europe’s tender wilderness. Here, the Cerna Valley and its surroundings, in the country’s southwest. The scenery, a soft primordial crescendo. The climate mild, the people welcoming. And the fragrances – whether wild flowers and acacia or the smell of home-cooked meals – irresistible. Rumänien, Europas sanfte Wildnis. Hier, das Cernatal und seine Umgebung im…

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  • Recviem la catafalcul relaţiilor interumane

    Toată obsesia asta a noastră pentru bani şi lucruşoare, toată centrarea asta a vieţii pe posesiuni şi proprietăţi preţioase ajunge încet-încet să strice totul. De-ţi vine să fugi naibii în pădure şi să zici, “luaţi-vi-le fraţilor, luaţi tot ce prindeţi, stocaţi ca veveriţele pentru sfârşitul lumii, numai lăsaţi-mă odată-n pace”. Când, fără intenţie, atingi abia…

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