अहिंसा the Yoga of Consumption
Ahimsa, non-violence, the determination not to harm people or animals is much more complex today in a world with plastics.
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No one in the world is illegal
The past can be truly seductive, despite all the evidence to the contrary and the fact that no one has ever returned from it. That is why I have always been suspicious of nostalgia: it always sprouts in the present, no matter when it was sown from the seeds of what people prefer to remember, and never from the dead seeds of what they prefer to forget.
Read MoreTeoria de padaria
“Mermão…” berrou o gordo alegre, na roda dos amigos na padaria às 6:30 da manhã, sábado, naquela gritaria desagradável, mas engraçada, de concurso pneumático de macho carioca. “…O que você não aprende em casa, você aprende na rua…e a rua é o pior lugar para você aprender qualquer coisa!” Tomei o meu café em silêncio […]
Read MoreStuck in traffic
by Lygia Lima “No way, Doc! I don’t have that disease. Go find something else for me to have. I’m crazy, but not that crazy to have created such a disease!” I could understand why the doctor smiled. A scientist by nature, he is a man who has studied many, many things, but not necessarily […]
Read MoreParada no trânsito
por Lygia Lima “Doutor, eu não tenho essa doença não! Vai buscar outra coisa pra eu ter porque…eu sou louca, mas minha loucura é outra, e não criei isso não!” Entendi o sorriso do médico, por natureza, uma pessoa científica. Uma pessoa que estudou muita coisa, mas não necessariamente um estudo que contempla donde vem […]
Read MoreMemórias de Colonia
A photo essay on autumn and the present perfect in the timeless Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay by Ricky Toledano
Read MoreBook review: “The Maze” by Panos Karnezis
More than its reviews, it was the novel’s setting just after the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) — in which a remaining and lost Greek regiment wandered the deserts of Anatolia to find the sea — that sparked my curiosity to read Panos Karnezis’s, The Maze. Sebastian Faulk’s Birdsong and A.S. Byatt’s The Children’s Story are […]
Read MoreGentrification: problem or progress?
I suspect that whomever can answer that question of whether gentrification is progress or problem shall answer all questions, because it reverts to a much more profound human challenge.
Read MoreThe Street Art of Montevideo
The most amazing panorama
Read MoreThe Port[als] of Buenos Aires
The words for port and door are quite the same in Latin languages. Actually, it is hardly a stretch for English speakers to grasp the relevant vocabules for a place of entry and exit. In the case of Buenos Aires, however, I found poetry in how the very doors of the city reflected the amazing […]
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