it was 2007. we were on our way to the uk on a round the world ticket… always wanting to visit greece, i asked nic if we could stop on the way in athens, then take a ferry to an island close by. this is how we ended up on the island of paros towards […]
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is “look under foot.” You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place […]
in this brief half life spring the morning feels delicious/all wounds explained here, all hurts let fall, all knives bandaged, all empires arrested. all castles unbuilt, all symbols embarrassed/ a fragile glass crown at the broken heart of europe-the holocaust memorial and side-by-side hiroshima strasse. never again please israel, never again please iran, never again […]
При́пять (Pripyat) was founded in 1970 to house workers for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979 but was abandoned in 1986 following the Chernobyl disaster. It was the ninth nuclear city (“атомоград” (atomograd) in Russian, literally “atom city”) in the Soviet Union at the time. Its population had […]