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Rediscovering Forgotten Tales: A Glimpse into Abandoned Villages

I’ve always been drawn to the stories lingering in the forgotten corners of our world. Today, I stumbled upon a digital treasure trove that left me captivated and contemplative: Stefan Irvine Photography’s collection of “Abandoned Villages.” I found myself entranced by each photograph in this collection. Through Irvine’s lens, these abandoned villages come to life in a way that feels both…

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#learning #life #places #Poetry #space #Travel

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booksplease · 8 months

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The Keeper of Doings

I have been delving into the Gita, partly for solace, partly for nostalgia, and partly for direction. I am finding great comfort in these rather well-known (comparatively speaking) lines from the text: karmany-evadhikaras te ma phaleshu kadachanama karma-phala-hetur bhur ma te sango ’stvakarmani BG 2.47: You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits…

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booksplease · 1 year

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Aachen, Radhadesh, Dusseldorf for the 44th

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booksplease · 1 year

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An Ode to the Stylish Cafes of Copenhagen

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#art #city life #city pockets #eating out #food #journal #learning #life #living #mindful #photos #places #Poem #Poet #Poetry #space #the writing life #thoughts #Travel #words #Writing

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booksplease · 1 year

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10 Postcards from Copenhagen

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booksplease · 1 year

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Belmonte Arboretum in Spring Sunshine

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#city pockets #flowers #fun #grow #leaves #life #living #mindful #nature #Netherlands #people who belong to rivers #photos #pictures #places #spring #Travel #trees #walks #water

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booksplease · 1 year

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70 Postcards from Paris

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#bambi #city life #eating out #family #food #fun #learning #life #memory #mindful #Paris #people #pictures #places #Restaurant #Travel #yum in my tum

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booksplease · 2 years

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The Graph of a Cry

My dissertation is available as a book for academics, libraries, and those who are interested to read more about the phenomenal journey of the American ghazal. This dissertation analyzes the journey of the ancient Arabic poetic form of the ghazal to America to provide insights into transnational poetry and cultural mobility. While the movement of other cultural forms, such as food and music, has…

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booksplease · 3 years

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Intersectionality and film at the filmacademie

Almost every year I get to work with the vibrant students of the Filmacademie, an opportunity that I greatly look forward to as it always leads to powerful conversations in which I get to learn just as much as the students. The diversity and inclusion workshop involves the theory of Intersectionality and unpacking films and characters using the intersectional prism. Photo by Deva Darshan on…

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#amira day #elvira porcedda #inclusion #intersectionality #kimberle crenshaw #LEARN! Academy #prism #vrije universiteit

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booksplease · 3 years

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Museum VoorLinden in a weird year

In the summer 2020, we took some time off to go visit spaces that resonated our inner landscape. It was a beautiful time for innovation, but mostly there was devastation followed by a constant creeping feeling of calamity. When my friend Marrije suggested that a visit to the Museum Voorlinden is a must. I took her up on her suggestion. The added cherry on this cake was that Piet Oudolf has…

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booksplease · 3 years

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“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”

- Oscar Wilde

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booksplease · 3 years

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If I Am Tired, I Will Rest

The kingdom of heaven — whatever that place is to you — does not care about how many books you have published nor how many emails you have answered. Just imagine dying without truly understanding just how many shades of blue the sky contains?

Source: If I Am Tired, I Will Rest

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booksplease · 4 years

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Plowing through Anxiety

Now they see me, now they don’t…

Dr. Olivia Remes says that if you want to accomplish things despite your anxiety, follow these three principles:

Anything worth doing is worth doing badly the first time (G.K. Chesterton)

Forgive yourself

Have a purpose – do something with someone else in mind.

As I talk to teachers and students who are struggling with the new normal I wanted to take the…

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#anxiety #chronic anxiety #high performing #learning #mindful #pandemic #people #people who belong to rivers #perfection #social anxiety #vrije universiteit

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booksplease · 4 years

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What to make of this summer?

The Woman Who Turned Down a Date with a Cherry Farmer

BY AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL

Fredonia, NY

Of course I regret it. I mean there I was under umbrellas of fruit so red they had to be borne of Summer, and no other season. Flip-flops and fishhooks. Ice cubes made of lemonade and sprigs of mint to slip in blue glasses of tea. I was dusty, my ponytail all askew and the tips of my fingers…

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booksplease · 4 years

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The Art of Food: Sazanka Throwback

A long overdue post, memories of my 41st birthday, celebrated at the very special Sazanka, Okura. Merely selecting and editing the pictures for this post left me with a warm fuzzy feeling.

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booksplease · 4 years

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My Transcendental Truth

Having recently given a guest lecture in Dr. Laura Rupp’s class on Translanguaging and Transnationalism, my mind kept going back to this old poem I had written:

To tell you the truth

Upon walking into an airport My body somehow becomes a machine Mechanical with nuts and bolts A system I cyclically follow My head tells me – let’s get this over with

“Please take out all electronic devices from your…

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#Poem #Poetry #transnational

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booksplease · 4 years

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Nailing my vulnerabilities, #intelligentlockdownblog

Ok so let me go right ahead and let the world know about my little vulnerabilities.

Everyone I know knows (you know) that I have epic perfect nails that I am very finicky about. I have been getting them professionally done for the last ten years or so.

“Them Nails” are a thing on my Insta Feed

Usually, I tell people I have bad short nails (which I do have) and getting them done gives me…

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#healing #scars

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