Day: April 12, 2022

Originally posted on ||skirmishes|| ||with|| ||reality||: What does Sagittarius or Venus mean? Words like these meant completely different things millenia ago than what they do now. For one to increase, the other had to dwindle and fade. Icker threaded his way down through the rocks and thickets to the usual spot, a grassy clearing directly…

Originally posted on ||skirmishes|| ||with|| ||reality||: Erotic love is like a possession, an intensification of self. It leaves one fevered. But parental love is something altogether miraculous. It is a remedy, a self-dissolving. A spreading out into the cosmos… an echo of what it must be like to be a sun. He mentions school is…

Originally posted on ||skirmishes|| ||with|| ||reality||: The impressions friends and others make upon each other are by no stretch proportional to the length of time of their encounters… it was a gentle thing we took to following we never said ‘we should’ but knew it was good we saw what others missed we strained to…

Originally posted on ||skirmishes|| ||with|| ||reality||: Sun keeps coming, sacrificing its own substance… she demos her new switchblade on her latest chronicle verité and bemoans the platform’s disavowal and maybe there’s authenticity her millenial motive anxiety one believes: real terror presiding but I love most not the outrage nor the projecting bravado not even the…

Originally posted on ||skirmishes|| ||with|| ||reality||: The meaning of labor is far removed from what economists reckon. “You shall feel the sweat on your brow and toil in life’s fields.” (paraphrasing Genesis 3:17-19)… In him sparkled Capricorn’s pragmatism More glaring than I could sometimes behold Already three young ones, and a leafy abode Early 30’s…

I think a lot of times if people knew the signs of toxicity and negativity beforehand, they would have saved a lot of their precious time and effort from an undeserving person & relationship. And that’s what I wanted to share with you! In today’s post, I wanted to share with you 3 signs of…

Scandi crime fiction I have a lot of favourite side characters in film and television, particularly Scandinavian crime series, but do I have a favourite side character in a novel? I really like the brash, but family-minded and a bit impulsive,  Martinsson, who often goes off half-cocked, in the Kurt Wallander (Henning Mankell’s) novels, but…

When thinking about C I was tempted to go for Cordoba and also the rather strange unfinished Cathedral in Cuenca.  Both in Spain of course.  I could have gone to Coventry in UK but I haven’t got any pictures of Coventry  Cathedral so after much deliberation I chose instead to go to Coimbra in Portugal……

Catbells is changing colourburnished copper into gilded greenthe fields, alive in flowergive on to glorious mountainscapes, serene Higher peaks peppered with snow, belowthe wan sun warms the valley floorhere we may lay aside sorrowwhere grieving sings no more The birds trill out their tra-la-la songall the length of my broad trailtheir honeyed melodies in throngrise,…

പെസഹാവ്യാഴം 2022 ലോകം മുഴുവനും അപ്പത്തിനുവേണ്ടി അലയുകയാണ്. യുക്രയിനിൽ ജനങ്ങൾ സ്വാതന്ത്ര്യമെന്ന അപ്പത്തിനുവേണ്ടി പ്രാർത്ഥിക്കുകയാണ്. നമ്മുടെ അയൽരാജ്യമായ ശ്രീലങ്കയാകട്ടെ ശാരീരിക വിശപ്പകറ്റാനുള്ള അപ്പത്തിനായി കരയുന്നു. ആഫ്രിക്കൻ രാജ്യങ്ങൾ ഇപ്പോഴും നിലനില്പിനുവേണ്ടി, ആഹാരത്തിനുവേണ്ടി, ലഹരിവസ്തുക്കളിൽ നിന്നുള്ള മോചനത്തിനുവേണ്ടി പടപൊരുതുകയാണ്. യമൻ തുടങ്ങിയരാജ്യങ്ങളിൽ വംശഹത്യ ദിനചര്യയായിരിക്കുകയാണ്. കേരളത്തിലാകട്ടെ മുല്ലപ്പെരിയാർ, കെ.റെയിൽ, ഇന്ധന വിലവർദ്ധനവ് തുടങ്ങിയ മാരകവിപത്തുകൾ വാ പൊളിച്ചുനിൽക്കുമ്പോൾ ജീവിക്കുവാനുള്ള അപ്പത്തിനുവേണ്ടി കേരളമക്കൾ നെട്ടോട്ടമോടുകയാണ്, സമരംചെയ്യുകയാണ്. ദരിദ്രരുടെ വീടുകളിൽ, തെരുവുകളിൽ, ജയിലികളിൽ, ആശുപത്രികളിൽ, മനസികാരോഗ്യകേന്ദ്രങ്ങളിൽ എല്ലാം മനുഷ്യർ അപ്പത്തിനായി കേഴുകയാണ്!…

J. Guenther I was privileged to receive this novel brilliantly authored by J. Guenther.  This book transports you back to the days many of your relatives lived through – to the European Theater of WWII – the war that changed the world. You will find easy reading and rest assured, no previous military or secret…

Originally posted on The Incorrigible Kitten: It’s that time of the year: a sort of makeshift random annual census that most count as unnecessary, a few others believing in its utility and a minor group liking the attention. This time around, we shall count amongst us, the easily bewitched by that one witching tree that…

Originally posted on The Incorrigible Kitten: Don’t do it. Which button can you press for the ones inside your head? For the ones you’d like to keep, left crumbling with no support on which to stand. Take them all, trash and gold. As good as old. Sort it out when the time comes, when they…

Originally posted on The Incorrigible Kitten: First think of the title, then the content. “Why thank you, brain,” I bellowed, “how disorderly of you to let me in on the secret years after I cry myself awake.” “You’re welcome,” says brain, “that dribble of confidence swears down your chinny chin chin though. Now you must…

Reprise Patience is wide and whiteUnique and brightFreedom is deep blueI’ll spread my wings and fly with youPassion is red bloodAnd so is anger when you’re stuck in the mudEnvy can be black or greyDreams are like a rainbow in the skyFaith is violetStart again, resetHope is dressed up in yellowBut it tastes like a…