FORGIVE THE MOON Sour, mutilates, over large areas, perhaps the tenth time so, as a clumsy stripped wanderer, passing the Moon. On its face, the tired smile of old rascals, and under her, the camp gets up with a sentence that is lost in sighs. plain covered with wounds, sterile and lean, in a subdued light, ironic, the moon bathes …
Read More »THE TIME ATLAS – The wonders of the National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City
You think getting into a Museum of Anthropology is a useless thing? Perhaps, you have not had a chance to get into the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. What you find inside that special place (considered, for its museological conception, one of the best museums in the world), it came back to sunlight during archaeological excavations citizens. Looking …
Read More »A INDESTRUCTIBLE TREASURE – The eye of a leopard or the terrace of the lions. You too can enter in Treasure Island, come to Delos
In 2000 BC they arrived on Mount Kynthos the first inhabitants of this island. Since then, many events filled with memories the island of Delos, famous in the 700 a. C. for its sanctuary of Apollo. The Romans they arrived here in 250 BC, and to protect the site from the pirates, it was fortified (after the sacking of the …
Read More »LOVE – Poetry, by Edith Irene Södergran
LOVE My soul was a light blue dress color of the sky. I left him on a cliff, at the sea, and naked I came to you, resembling a woman. And as a woman, I sat at your table, and I drank a cup of wine, I breathed in the scent of roses. You found me beautiful, that I looked …
Read More »A PORT IN THE MEDITERRANEAN – Poetry, by Henrik Nordbrandt
A PORT IN THE MEDITERRANEAN I do not know what is more important, the spicy sweetness of bitter coffee, mixed with the taste of the first cigarette in the morning, or the smell of fish and boats, freshly painted. The washed clothes on the wire, between the almond trees in bloom, or the mountains that put them in prominence. No, …
Read More »AMBROGIO LORENZETTI (1290/1348), ITALIAN PAINTER – When the history of art contains the colors of secularism
WHEN NOT EXIST ILLUSTRATED BOOKS – Ambrogio Lorenzetti: speaking clearly, with colors and chromatic expressions
AMBROGIO LORENZETTI 1/4 – He is one of the masters of the fourteenth century Sienese school, a painter who has remained famous for the strong allegorical component of his work. Observing what he paints, you can admire the humanity of the subjects represented. He died in 1348, the plague that decimated the population of Europe. In his will, he has …
Read More »505 STEPS, UNIQUE IN THE WORLD – Siena: the frescoes by Ambrogio Lorenzetti and the Torre del Mangia
This building, even now, is the seat of the municipality of Siena, but you need not worry, because the halls of this extraordinary medieval building are open to the public. I am absolutely convinced that you are happy to have spent your energy to climb the Torre del Mangia. That tower, completed in 1348 by the brothers Francesco and Minuccio …
Read More »A SHELL CONTAINING THE PALIO – Piazza del Campo and Via della Galluzza, secularism and holiness, into the same walls of Siena
Piazza del Campo, is where you can find all the major monuments of the city. Just like Rome, this city is built on hills, so when you begin to walk in the streets of Siena, even now you know that you will find challenging climbs and descents pleasant. Of one thing you can be sure: do not get bored. In …
Read More »BLACK MAPS – Poetry, by Mark Strand
BLACK MAPS Not the attendance of stones, nor the applauding wind, shall let you know you have arrived. Nor the sea that celebrates only departures, nor the mountains, nor the dying cities. Nothing will tell you, where you are. Each moment is a place, you’ve never been. You can walk, believing you cast a light around you. But how will …
Read More »SUMMER – Poetry by Abai Kunanbaev
SUMMER Summer climbs the mountains. Flowers overcolour and blanch. Men leave the sun and sit, tree-tented, by the cold creek. Horses bray, each apart in the warm air, and the long grass whiffles in a lime plain. Hushed and still, the horseherd stand in whiter-high; and wave the flies away with silk-swish tails; and colts clatter the air, rippling the …
Read More »BETWEEN GOING AND STAYING – Poetry by Octavio Paz
ENTRE IRSE Y QUEDARSE > Entre irse y quedarse duda el dÃa, enamorado de su transparencia. La tarde circular es ya bahÃa. En su quieto vaivén se mece el mundo. Todo es visible y todo es elusivo, todo está cerca y todo es intocable. Los papeles, el libro, el vaso, el lápiz reposan a la sombra de sus nombres. Latir …
Read More »NIGHT ON THE ISLAND – Poetry by Pablo Neruda
LA NOCHE EN LA ISLA > Toda la noche he dormido contigo junto al mar en la isla. Salvaje y dulce eras entre el placer y el sueño, entre el fuego y el agua. Tal vez muy tarde nuestros sueños se unieron en lo alto o en el fondo, arriba como ramas que un mismo viento mueve, abajo como rojas …
Read More »REMOTE, WILD AND SILENT – Travel along the north coast of Scotland
Yes, the bay is really wide. Just from that bay ferries leave for Orkney and Shetland. Thurso is really a small town, but this scenic part of Scotland’s northern coast, offers a starting point for many, very many small and valuable discoveries. Dounreay, gives the opportunity to visit the Atomic Energy Exhibition, but crossing the estuary of Stath Naver and …
Read More »SAYING SOMETHING – Poetry, by Carol Ann Duffy
SAYING SOMETHINGÂ Things assume your shape. Discarded clothes, a damp shroud in the bathroom, vacant hands. This is not fiction. This is the plain and warm material of love. My heart assumes it. We wake. Our private language starts the day. We make familiar movements through the house. The dreams we have no phrases for slip through our fingers into …
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