THE HILL > I have come this far on my own legs, missing the bus, missing taxis, climbing always. One foot in front of the other, that is the way I do it. It does not bother me, the way the hill goes on. Grass beside the road, a tree rattling its black leaves. So what? The longer I walk, …

It is a story of inescapable family bonds, terrible secrets, and of miracles. The start, beginning in Nova Scotia, through a battlefields. James Piper sets fire to his dead mother’s piano and heads out across Cape Breton Island to find a new place to live, knowing Materia Mahmoud, and he becomes increasingly frustrated by her resulting strange behavior. http://www.amazon.com/Fall-Your-Knees-Oprahs-Book/dp/0743237188

ANDREW WYETH 1/4 – He was born July’s day, and its family was always close, spending time reading and fostering a closeness with nature. He painted in a realistic way, as a son of art, by the father. For a long time, he was snubbed by the official critics as an eccentric and solitary painter, plagued by a sentimental attachment …

Maybe, often you happened to observe people from a window, imagining their lives. Rachel – the protagonist of this novel – whose life (apparently perfect), has recently been shattered, she observes two people every morning, for a few minutes (from a train window), and that couple is become for her an obsession. Those two people, living to her old house. …

“The Book of Ephraim” is the first of three books that make up “The Changing Light at Sandover,” the masterpiece of one of the most important American poets of the late twentieth century, James Merrill (1926/1995). FROM THE BOOK OF EPHRAIM Admittedly I err by undertaking this is its present form. The baldest prose reportage was called for, that would …

Some service station, where to find the classic pretzel “Homer Simpson”, along with a good coffee. Small countries that emerge between the green meadows, each gathered around their “main street”, with old abandoned farms. During the first weekend of August, all of this changes, because by all the Member States the streets are invaded by 500,000 Bikers gather in a …

VLADIMIR KUSH 1/4 – He was born near the Sokolniki forest, loving the great artists of the Renaissance. Elephants with giant tubas for faces, and white sailing ship approaches harbour on a calm sea, they are its personal way to the metaphorical realism. VLADIMIR KUSH 2/4 – Graduating the Institute of Fine Arts, traveling in Hong Kong and Hawaii, Germany …

What you see, hear, eat and feel, it’s all inside Meeting Benches way (the Vitruvian approach to life), also reading a poetry, like that. IT’S TIME, MY FRIEND, IT’S TIME It’s time, my friend, it’s time! The heart calls for peace. Flying day after day, and every hour takes away a particle of life, you and I, the two of …