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Carpathian cow-keeper
Read more: Carpathian cow-keeperCome, 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
Read more: 11 million electric bikesThe 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!
Read more: 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*
Read more: 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
Read more: 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
Read more: (Be)longingbelonging 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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Today
Read more: Todaybe 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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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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Quote of the day
Read more: Quote of the day“Beauty is rarely mentioned in contemporary art critiques: in a reflection of the left hemisphere’s values, a work is now conventionally praised as ‘strong’ or ‘challenging’, in the rhetoric of power, the only rhetoric in all our relations with the world and with one another that we are now permitted. It has become somehow unsophisticated…
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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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