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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

ALBORES

Ventana literaria

ALBORES

Déjame sentir 
la fina línea de tus sueños
desdoblándose en una espiral constante
en la profundidad del silencio
y las caricias del alma
en cada amanecer.

LMML

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Grumbling Titka #Ukraine #fiction #atozchallenge — penned in moon dust

“They just arrived and are unpacking their car.” My husband walked quickly toward the entrance. “We need to think what we will say to the hotel staff.” I looked at the front desk. “If we are asked, we will tell them they are settling in with friends. These are unusual times.” “That will work.” I […]

Grumbling Titka #Ukraine #fiction #atozchallenge — penned in moon dust

Omelet 101 — snapshotsincursive

What’s Cooking in Gail’s Kitchen? The Next Step: Omelet 101. You’re having a get-together and need an effortless, but impressive, breakfast. While everyone is huddling in the kitchen, because this is what people do, pour them a cuppa joe and get started. Making the perfect omelet will have you feeling like a gourmet chef. It’s […]

Omelet 101 — snapshotsincursive

Fortune of Experience 🥠

From Behind the Pen

Image Credit: gremys, Pixabay

Ok, now I know many of you can’t wait to crack open a fortune cookie to read what the fortune says, whether we choose to agree with it or not. I recently read one that said, “Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.” So I thought, hmmmm…

After a moment of thinking about this single sentence, it’s not about telling a fortune in a cookie as much as it is about a declaration of life. If we were to get practically everything we want, what is there to look forward to? What shall we experience except temporary gratification, constant dissatisfaction, and restlessness for more? We will miss the bus on the amazing lessons and awesome things in life if we get everything we want, every time we want it. Will this help us look beyond the blur of our self-regard into…

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French Fridays and Les 1001 Nuits: Building Empathy One Story at a Time

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

Well, Tome 1, anyway…

I’ve finished listening to and reading two very similar but different versions of the first couple hundred nights or so of the Thousand and One (aka Arabian) Nights: both compiled from the first set of translations, by French Arabic translator and Story-o-Phile A. Galland (who added the famous but imho inferior stories of Sinbad the sailor and possibly also either Aladdin and the lamp or Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves). 

I can definitely see why the Sultan of the Indies spared our Heroine’s life to listen each night: these stories are riveting!   Léon_Carré_-_Les_Mille_et_Une_Nuits_1926_-_01

And even better, the ones that are not French additions are also excellently entertaining Cautionary Tales for rich rulers!!

 
Tome 8, still more stories of telling stories to save your life! -While this comment was intended to be just an update, it seems that I must have hit the wrong…

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Gedicht #31 — Courir écrire et crier

feutrer l’océan faire que ses vagues te caressent et qu’aucune ne me fasse peur en t’emportant que faire d’autre dérouler le tapis volant faire que les routes ne soient plus qu’un pas un seul un saut de chat entre toi et moi comment faire autrement qu’avec les mots ouvrir l’horizon plus large que tes bras embrassant […]

Gedicht #31 — Courir écrire et crier