Writer Between Worlds

Soulful writing about humans and places

Category: ROMÂNĂ

The mountain

Knee-deep in snow, the mountain sits in stillness while we climb. Our skis, wading through powder, cut two tiny paths through the amnesia of whiteness. Ahead of us, blank page. The forest’s blotted out. A house we passed? A cross-hatch, receding in the distance. The peak? A mass of blur. You crane your neck, ‘How…
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Immersed

I’d like there to be only quiet between us. Let us swim in a sea of quiet, lurking below the surface like the basking sharks or with our heads bobbing above the waves like two forgotten buoys far from the freighters’ routes or, better yet, let us make somersaults like the dolphins. I’ll know what…
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Quote of the day

“In the world of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions. It follows, then, that the true opponent of totalitarian kitsch is the person who asks questions. (…) But the people who struggle against what we call totalitarian regimes cannot function with queries and doubts. They, too, need certainties and…
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Quote of the day

“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come. (…) There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning,…
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Meditation

tonight I am the sky. its scattered stars beneath the tattered tarp of cloudstill feebly glinting on the inverted retina of a dark, blinded world, as from said sky now snow, in microscopic crystals, pours down, tangoes around the silence, accrues on steps and ledges, and on thresholds hisses like the big swooshing ocean, “behold…
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Quote of the day

“To listen is to lean in softly with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.” Mark Nepo
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Quote of the day

“The romantic movement, in its essence, aimed at liberating human personality from the fetters of social convention and social morality. (…) But egoistic passions, when once let loose, are not easily brought again into subjection to the needs of society. (…) By encouraging a new lawless Ego, it made social cooperation impossible, and left its…
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Quote of the day

“Man, formerly too humble, begins to think of himself as almost a God. (…) In all this I feel a grave danger, the danger of what might be called cosmic impiety. The concept of “truth” as something dependent upon facts largely outside human control has been one of the ways in which philosophy hitherto has…
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Quote of the day

“Because existence is always more decisive than words. And it was necessary, and will always remain so, to ask oneself whether this fact in not far more important than writing books or giving lectures: that each of us actualises the content in our own act of being.” Viktor Frankl – Yes to Life in Spite…
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Quote of the day

“(…) it is never a question of where someone is in life, or which profession he is in, it is only a matter of how he occupies his circle in life and fills his place. Whether a life is fulfilled does not depend on how great one’s radius of action is, but rather only on…
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Quote of the day

“It is simply learning a new language, but by the time you are through, the content of what you can talk about is monumentally different, as is the perspective from which you speak. (…) the better I got at engaging in this discourse, the more impossible it became for me to express my own ideas,…
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Quote of the day

“(…) a human being should never become a means to an end. But already in the economic system of the last few decades, most working people had been turned into mere means, degraded to become mere tools for economic life. It was no longer work that was the means to an end, a means for…
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