Everything is made of small things. Electrons. Atoms. Nuts. Bolts. Screws. Prayer beads. Everything carries bits of something else. Nothing arrives fully formed. Everything starts as something other, becomes one thing and then another. Shifts. Changes, and then becomes something different yet again.
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A PhD student at the U of Kansas is doing research on "The Darcy Dilemma" which asks the question: what version of Darcy do you like better: Firth or MacFayden AND why did you choose that particular Darcy. You can find the research survey here: https://forms.gle/JpBDswCqy5EzyeMc7
From the mind of multidisciplinary artist Cendrine Marrouat, comes a unique collection that blends poetry, poetic thoughts, short personal essays, and never-released photography.
Cendrine’s most personal project to date, The Meaning will leave you inspired and with a sense of renewed gratitude for life.
From the mind of multidisciplinary artist Cendrine Marrouat, comes a unique collection that blends poetry, poetic thoughts, short personal essays, and never-released photography.
Cendrine’s most personal project to date, The Meaning will leave you inspired and with a sense of renewed gratitude for life.
💥 Christmas is coming and my book is coming too! This monthly post about The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia discusses my approach of building a discursive strategy. It explains how I was choosing epigraphs and what books and authors influenced my writing style.
Somedays we push, and pull, and pry. Most days we blister and ache. We feel the weight of every failed attempt like sediment. Like coarse conglomerate. Immovable granite and bouldering clay. It's heavy. It's hard to carry. It's hard to move, but even a little bit goes a long way...
We "assemble a life from the usable fragments", Lewis Hyde says. Sacred relics of the wreckage, gathered and connected. We experience the world as wholeness when all our pieces have a space.
An absolute asset is the recent online haiku magazine 'haikuNetra', curated by Daipayan Nair.
Issue 1.5 is online now, with two truly amazing haiku by @alansummers@haikutec.
I feel honoured that three of my haiku have been chosen.