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A Writer's Deli

You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavour to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by millions of people. One might think this state was antithetical to urban living, to the massed presence of other human beings, and yet mere physical proximity is not enough to dispel a sense of internal isolation. It’s possible – easy, even – to feel desolate and unfrequented in oneself while living cheek by jowl with others. Cities can be lonely places, and in admitting this we see that loneliness doesn’t necessarily require physical solitude, but rather an absence or paucity of connection, closeness, kinship: an inability, for one reason or another, to find as much intimacy as is desired.Unhappy, as the dictionary has it,as a result of being without the companionship of others. Hardly any wonder, then, that it can reach its apotheosis in a crowd.

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16 dintr-o expoziție

Of the twenty-seven thousand paintings in the collection of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, two hundred traveled to the West for the first time to the Custody Foundation in Paris (rue de Lille, 121), a space with quality exhibitions. The collection belonged to the Russian aristocracy and came into the possession of the Pushkin Museum through post-revolutionary nationalizations. I have chosen some rare compositions of graphics, watercolor and painting signed by great masters, I present them to you, with their little story.

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Paris, 2019

Din cele douăzeci și șapte de mii de tablouri aflate în colecția muzeului Pușkin, la Moscova, două sute au călătorit pentru prima dată în Occident, la Fundația Custodia din Paris (rue de Lille, 121), un spațiu cu expoziții de calitate. Colecția a aparținut aristocrației rusești și a intrat în posesia muzeului Pușkin prin naționalizările post-revoluționare. Am ales câteva compoziții rare de grafică, acuarelă și pictură semnate de mari maeștri, vi le prezint și vouă, cu mica lor poveste.

Ați întâlnit vreodată o sibilă ?

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Nu v-ar strica, pentru că sibila are darul profeției. Dar, vă previn, nu-i ușor să-i descâlcești vorbele. Cea de aici are o vârstă venerabilă, e din secolul 15 și e solitară. De obicei, ele se prezentau într-un grup de douăsprezece, nu întâmplător în perfectă simetrie cu cei doisprezece apostoli. Aceste personaje, precum și oracolele din cărțile sibilinice, au fost integrate în iconografia creștină.

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Five On A Wire – #4 — Photos by Donna

° BLOG ° Gabriele Romano

. Sharing another series of five birds perched on a wire.  They do love their 360° views on them! The first two are both American Kestrels; one is a male, the other a female, for the bonus of comparison. . American Kestrel (male) . Males have slate blue on their wings, females do not. . […]

Five On A Wire – #4 — Photos by Donna

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“Lorsque vous abattez les arbres, vous attaquez les esprits de nos ancêtres. Lorsque vous creusez pour trouver des minéraux, vous empalez le cœur de la Terre…” | Barbara Crane Navarro – “When you cut down trees, you attack the spirits of our ancestors. When you dig for minerals, you impale the heart of the Earth… ”

Source: “Lorsque vous abattez les arbres, vous attaquez les esprits de nos ancêtres. Lorsque vous creusez pour trouver des minéraux, vous empalez le cœur de la Terre…” | Barbara Crane Navarro

Gardons à l’esprit la puissance des arbres… 🦉 — JEREMIKARUS

Barbara Crane Navarro

Toujours garder en tête la puissance d’un arbre. L’idée que «ça n’est pas une question de taille» semble assez bien répandue 😊😅. Il est ici encore intéressant de le rappeler. Petits ou grands, il suffit d’observer les arbres en se promenant dans la forêt pour ressentir quelque chose d’important. En marchant, nous passons alors un[…]

Gardons à l’esprit la puissance des arbres… 🦉 — JEREMIKARUS

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Palm oil plantations are bad for wildlife great and small: study — Palm Oil Detectives

Barbara Crane Navarro

Palm oil plantations have an overall negative impact on biodiversity, according to research released this week. The study, published in Nature Communications, found palm oil plantations are home to fewer insect species than even intensive rubber tree plantations. A forests expert at James Cook University, Bill Laurance, said of the research: “The big message is[…]

Palm oil plantations are bad for wildlife great and small: study — Palm Oil Detectives

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Desmatamento recorde na Amazônia: 2021 teve pior abril da série histórica, mostra Inpe —

Barbara Crane Navarro

O desmatamento na Amazônia atingiu em abril o pior índice para o mês já registrado na série histórica desde 2015, segundo dados do Instituto de Pesquisas Espaciais (Inpe). Os alertas abrangeram uma área de 580,55 km², equivalente a 58 mil campos de futebol, conforme medições do Sistema de Detecção de Desmatamento em Tempo Real(Deter).…

Desmatamento recorde na Amazônia: 2021 teve pior abril da série histórica, mostra Inpe —

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