Tag: In English

  • My not-to-do-list

    I swear I had a profound idea for a blog post the other day. I remember standing by the kitchen sink as it hit me, and I thought that this is too interesting to forget, so I won’t bother writing it down. Naturally, the idea has now escaped me. Drained…

  • I love to walk

    I love to walk To see the world in the available light To feel the horizon urging me on Grateful to wake up warm and dry Grateful to wake up at all Resting in the dark Turning to the light Reflecting grateful for what has been Excited to discover the…

  • Good news

    The year is going fantastic so far. My arm is healing excruciatingly slowly and plans keep getting cancelled, but whatever. Suddenly I have a new job! I will essentially be overseeing the production of audiobooks, in the capacity of someone who knows science. State-produced media for the hard-of-sight and dyslexic.…

  • 2021

    Time to sum up the year, I suppose. I’ll be ending it on a pitiful note: sick with Covid-19 and with my broken arm not yet healed. Thankfully, though, I am fully vaccinated and the symtoms so far are not worse than a bad cold. And I’m living in a…

  • Like a van in the dark

    That challenge worked out pretty well. I didn’t complete the entire thing, but it definitely got a creative spark going, which was the intent after all. I had fun and learned things about endangered animals, at least. But then life happened. Hit me like a van in the dark. Literally,…

  • Undying Tales part 20: Horseshoe Crab

      “What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.” — Ursula K. LeGuin (Dragonfly) Isn’t it marvellous that a life-form  unchanged for millions of years appearing alien  not because of new and freakish features but because it conservatorially remained in its shape while the rest of the planet moved beyond copper-tinged…

  • Undying Tales part 18: Elkhorn Coral

      Rainforest of the sea home of millions surface like stone, yet alive immensely old, yet fragile growing slowly over thousands of years hosting entire eco-systems turning white over a few days calcifying, petrifying dying from heat and acidity the ocean floor is turning into a graveyard Love and devastation,…