“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
Robert Fulghum – All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Art – “Fireworks Over Castel Sant’Angelo In Rome” (1775) by Jacob Philipp Hackert
“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.”
– David W. Orr – Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World
Art by Catrin Welz Stein.
The Portrait
written by: Mehreen Ahmed
@MehreenAhmed2
On the crossing of Victoria and Harriet Street stood a massive block of a grey apartment building. Up in the front of each flat, balconies jutted out like open matchboxes, creating a blind spot for the incoming traffic. It posed an undeniable threat to the traffic on the road. Notwithstanding, the building had much to offer in the way of charm.
View the full article at Spillwords.com.
Mehreen Ahmed
A critically acclaimed writer, Mehreen Ahmed has published flash fiction, short stories, novels, historical travelogue, academic reviews/article and journalistic write-ups. She has published with Routledge: Journal of Computer Assisted Language Learning, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge journals Language Teaching, Language Learning and Technology, Straylight Literary Magazine: University of Wisconsin-Parkland, English Department, Storyland Literary Review, Wordcurd, Story Institute, Cosmic Teapot Publishing, The Sheaf: Campus newspaper for the University of Saskachewan and the Dawn blog.
The Midwest Book Review, has reviewed one of her books, The Pacifist. Two of her short stories, The Anomalous Duo has been translated in German, Familie (er)zählt: Selection of stories completed; Sammlung abgeschlossen, (In press) and The Black Coat, in Greek: ΤΟ ΜΑΥΡΟ ΠΑΛΤΟ, published in Nyctophilia.gr.
She has an MA in English Literature, Dhaka University and an MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Queensland, Brisbane Australia.
She was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, but lives in Australia.
“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
– Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, 1847
Art – Daido Moriyama, Love Motel, Miyagi Prefecture, 1970
As someone once said, I think it was me: There is nothing so dangerous as an idea. Particularly one whose time has come…
– Ralph Steadman
Art – Comet Halley by Vladimir Kush
“I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
– Walt Whitman
Art by Henry Julien Felix Rousseau.
Fourteen writers on the one book that brings them hope in the midst of hopelessness at Lithub.com
Erling Kagge about The Story of Albert Schweitzer:
“Schweitzer’s idea in Reverence for Life: that good consists in maintaining, assisting and enhancing life, and to destroy, to harm or to hinder life is evil slowly opened a new horizon. I started to see that everybody can change the world. One small step at a time. Even a mouse can eat an elephant if it takes small enough bites. The challenge lies in the desire.”
– Erling Kagge
Norwegian explorer, appears at Hay Festival Querétaro to talk about his latest work, Walking; One Step At a Time.
View the full article at Lithub.com.
“Everybody dances towards the truth, dropping veils as they go.”
– Terence McKenna
Art by Catrin Welz-Stein.
“In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream – an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Ligeia
Photography Art by Peter Lindberg (November 23, 1944 – September 3, 2019).
“Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.”
Langston Hughes, 1902 – 1967
René Burri – Ipanema Beach, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, 1958
