Monthly Archives: July 2012

I Know This Much Is True

Posted on July 30, 2012 by

The artist is learning a special language in which to reveal truth. If you write, write from the heart, yet carefully, objectively. Never pose. Write little things which you think are true. Then you may sometimes find that they are … Continue reading →

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Overhead

Posted on July 27, 2012 by

Still not moving–thirty minutes after the departure time. Passengers check the clocks on their cell phones, sigh, slap their legs, make utterances in their native tongues. When the bus to Budapest is finally on its way, a woman in the … Continue reading →

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I Like a Good Papercut and Fear No Cannonball. (A Poll)

Posted on July 26, 2012 by

Seeking info. So feel free to elaborate in Comments…

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Yes, I Believe We’ve Already Met

Posted on July 25, 2012 by

I get a kick out of meeting someone who is a cliché embodied. It produces a pleasant feeling of a world completed, of everything arranging itself without any of my involvement, yet not veering out of control. –Aleksandar Hemon. Nowhere … Continue reading →

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I Pick Things Up And Put Them Down

Posted on July 23, 2012 by

At baggage claim in Istanbul, the men are standing with hands on their hips. They wait shoulder to shoulder, some standing sideways to get one arm slightly closer to the unmoving baggage carousel. They glance at those on the other … Continue reading →

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Happiness. Snacks.

Posted on July 20, 2012 by

One of the secrets of the happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better. -Iris Murdoch. The Sea, The Sea.

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Morning Routine: Vienna

Posted on July 18, 2012 by

A woman on her balcony turns her back to the street and raises her arms in a wide V overhead. She stretches at her reflection in the balcony windows. She reaches for the sky again, twice more, then bounces in … Continue reading →

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Can I Get This To-Go?

Posted on July 16, 2012 by

So sorry! I collected one really amazing moment of life in Austria this morning. You’ll have to wait until Wednesday, though. (There will be jumping jacks involved.) In the meantime, enjoy this Nobel Prize Winning Austrian novelist’s line and tourist … Continue reading →

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Hats Off

Posted on July 13, 2012 by

He tumbles, his small souvenir fez cap flying. The boy and his younger sister had been running down the cobblestones by the Archaeology Museum in Istanbul, dashing on ahead of their parents. After he falls, his tiny sister stops cold. … Continue reading →

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On Your Way

Posted on July 11, 2012 by

You know, my dear child, that one cannot find peace in word or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul. –(From the Mother Superior) The Painted Veil. W. Somerset Maugham. (Shots from the … Continue reading →

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