I expect, like many another, you’ll spend your life oscillating between fierce relationships that become tunnel traps, and sudden escapes into wide freedom when the whole world seems to be just there for the taking. Nobody’s solved it. You solve it as you get older, when you reach the point where you’ve tasted so much that you can somehow sacrifice certain things more easily, and you have a more tolerant view of things like possessiveness (your own) and a broader acceptance of the pains and the losses.
I started this as an experiment. I wanted to see how long this text post would be with all these headlines. I was overwhelmed with what I saw. I had to stop because I was crying so hard I was shaking. I can’t believe these are the people sworn to protect us. I’m so frightened. Most, if not all, of these happened within the past year and these are only the ones caught on tape.
I am in disbelief at how long I had to scroll to reach the end
and, if you can’t get toasted pearl Couscous handpicked and blessed by a Moroccan shaman on the first tuesday of the winter harvest for your Sautéed Escarole then store bought is fine
“We have a good, solid Bible quote for our youth ministry, but we need a secular quote too. Some charismatic, influential person whom nobody would expect us to use, so we feel hip and relevant. I know! HOW ABOUT HITLER?”
In 1977 the GDR authorities set up plans for a green space between the Palast der Republik and the Fernsehturm. The sculptor Ludwig Engelhardt was appointed as director of the project to redevelop the site as a tribute to Marx and Engels, the founders of the communist movement to whose ideology the GDR was dedicated. The inauguration took place in 1986.
After German reunification in 1990, the future of the Marx-Engels Forum became the subject of public controversy. Some Berliners saw the Forum as an unwanted relic of a defunct regime which they opposed, and argued for the removal of the statues and renaming of the park. Others argued that the site had both artistic and historical significance, and should be preserved. The latter view eventually prevailed. (+)
Image by Pascal Sebah, who was one of the most prolific photographers in the 19th century Ottoman Empire, operating mostly in Istanbul, than later in Cairo. He pandered to western tourists who were interested in the traditional dress and activities of the people living in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. (image source)
