– Дурацкая, кстати, общеизвестная формула: ‘понять – значит простить’, поскольку настоящее, глубинное понимание наглядно показывает, что прощать, собственно, нечего.
– Макс Фрай, Жалобная книга
Translation (by yours truly): Continue reading “To Understand, to Forgive”
When you retreat into the darkness, lock the doors, block the windows, make a home there, your senses get attuned to the darkness. You recognize the other darkness lurkers and hiders as your kind. Continue reading “How to Become the Light”
DOT is a great teacher.
I danced with him first in Oakland, just over a year ago. Was nearly run over. I had been on a lookout for a tango teacher. Right there, in one tanda, he challenged me so clearly and to the point that I asked him to take me as a student next time I saw him.
During my first lesson, we danced a little bit; he had me do solo work. Walk and ochos weren’t terrible. Boleos were, not surprisingly. We started working on standing my ground. On the side step first, the right side easier than the left. He gave me homework. Continue reading “The Teacher”
I like words and the worlds they create. I grew up hiding there, behind books with words in them. At home, to be good was to be quiet.
I like handwritten letters. I remember writing them since I was about 7 years old. Writing home from grandma’s or the camp in the summer. Writing to the best friends who left, one after another. Writing home and to the best friends after I’ve left. Continue reading “Opening up through words, letters, and whatever else comes up”
Neil Gaiman’s collection “Trigger Warning” came out on February 3, 2015. Like “Fragile Things” 5 years prior, “Trigger Warning” is a medley of short pieces. Some of them are just a few pages long, others are longer. Some are poems. Some are fairy tales. One is a witness’ testimony during a police interview. Continue reading “Trigger Warning, a Book Review of Sorts, with References to Other Collections”
Love letters understated 