Categoría: essay
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Book Review: Democracy In America by Edward Ortiz
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville was a heavy read, to put it mildly. Tocqueville visited the United States in 1831 to study the country. Initially, his focus was the prison system, but his study expanded to include the government structure and the socio-economic conditions of the country. Once…
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snow-white hair and coal-black eyebrows by Bogdan Dragos
she lived alone and didn’t do much around the house Ate TV dinners all day and drank and complained that she couldn’t sleep at night Had a pretty nasty case of insomnia What can you expect from a girl with snow-white hair and coal-black eyebrows? some had said Obviously they…
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Review: BookBlog Ursula Major by B. Robert Conklin by Olga Nuñez
Hello, all: I bring you a book I reviewed for Rosie’s Books Review Team, one by an author I met through the team. This is the third novel I’ve read by him, and he has never disappointed me yet. Oh, and as I know quite a few of you were…
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The Big Dark Sky by Dean Koontz and Teagan Geneviene’s Re-Inventionators Post
By Olga Nuñez Hi, all: First of all, and before sharing my new review, I wanted to invite you to visit a post by one of my favourite authors and fellow bloggers, who has often featured here. She was kind enough to invite me to participate in a new series…
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Temporal by Miriam Costa
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsemfIhN2JJkYrGiva2lPMw It arrives as simple as a stormIt seemed like it would lastSo many signs and so many signalsI no longer know where to walkAnd when I looked in the mirrorI saw my face and I no longer recognized itAnd then I saw my storySo clear in each mark that…
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More wisdom and compassion by Susana Cabaço
The more wise and compassionate you become, the less prone to suffering you are. Wisdom and compassion make a magic elixir that gives you immunity to many potentially stressful situations. Things may still not be perfect, but they won’t disturb you as much as before. The idea is not simply…
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Easy Swing: a review of My Darling Boy by John Dufresne. By Peter Mladinic
W.W. Norton & Company. 2025. $ 26.99 Hardcover, $14.99 Kindle Wyatt Tyler is the rookie shortstop of the Brown Bats. On Opening Day Tyler’s line drive hit wins the game. Much later in the novel Tyler suffers an injury at the plate that will likely end his career; Olney Kartheizer,…
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“BAD @ LOVE” by Katya Mills
She likes to ask the questions that promote suffering and did you sleep with him? You fear her turning on you and tearing you apart yet your sad apple core tells you you deserve it. You aren’t going to lie but you are going to stop answering these questions. One…
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In honor of Juliana Marins by Miriam Costa
Our hearts suffocated by so many wars and distorted minds.That girl’s plea was ignored but the whole world watched Juliana being murdered.A volcano and the terror of those who see it, a fate, to travel and never return home, to die in agony and pain. There are people who are…
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ALONE, BUT NOT LONELY by Luisa Zambrotta
Liverpool: ELEANOR RIGBY – Statue dedicated to “ALL THE LONELY PEOPLE…” ALONE, BUT NOT LONELYEight Signs You’re Not Lonely Even Being Alone (by Jenny Marchal – abridged) Loneliness is often thought of as negative. It’s defined as depressive feelings of being alone with lack of companionship and support. While it…
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«The Nature of Happiness: Is it a Choice or a Result?» Essay by Michael Cheadle
«The Nature of Happiness: Is it a Choice or a Result?» Essay by Michael Cheadle According to Britannica: “happiness, in psychology, is a state of emotional well-being that a person experiences either in a narrow sense, when good things happen in a specific moment, or more broadly, as a positive…
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Time for the world to befriend each other… by John Coyote
Time for our world to befriend each other… It is a big, big wide world, so many people, all of us knowing the same enemy today. Russian government on YouTube told me to use ginger, I make homemade ginger tea and I feel better in the morning. In Israel, drinking…
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The dance of life by Susana Cabaço
The dance of life unfolds everywhere under silent, sacred tones. Different pairs dance together to this everlasting composition that keeps reverberating from celestial spheres throughout the universe—from your closest surroundings to the farthest galaxies. It’s a subtle dance of energy and matter, consciousness and form, beings and things, in any…
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Can a Toxic Leader lead change? by Edward Ortiz
A lot of people in my WP community know that I’m passionate about the subject of leadership, and I spend a significant amount of time reading and researching it. As I work on building my own way of understanding leadership and answering some big questions I have, I want to…
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The awareness of death and the language that names it by María José Luque Fernández
Graciela Pisano states that “what differentiates human beings from animals is the awareness of death.” This awareness is not merely knowing that we will die —something that could also be affirmed biologically— but knowing ourselves as mortal in a symbolic, existential sense. That is, to live under the weight and…
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Reframing life by Susana Cabaço
Change starts within. And it often starts with a shift of perspective. A powerful insight or profound realization is enough to change the way you perceive reality. Seeing things, situations, and people differently puts in motion an energetic rearrangement of the physical template, bringing magical unfoldings to light. Shortly put,…
