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i see stars in my coffee
in my coffee i see
the stars between you and me.
swirling in the milky film
universes are born and die
and i don’t understand what is behind your eyes
the space i want to cross.
Nov 16 2009lemons
when life gives you lemons,
make lemonade
but i want the lemon tree.
to nurture and care for the acidity.
gather the fruit.
i want to taste the sweetness
but also the bitterness,
knowing that more will grow in their place.the assault on reason
i have never considered myself a scholar of politics or even much cared about the nuances of government outside of what i learned in my civics class in high school. i was aware of the slow march toward idiocracy in the US but it took moving to another country to view as an outsider [...]
the lion and the crab
our local english news rag (much like the NewTimes, and such) called BCN Week has some pretty entertaining information on Barcelona, and keeps us feeling that although we cannot read the real newspapers we still get some news. well this week, they published these quite prophetic horoscopes. just a little insight, that living [...]
you should never mix
two things that should never happen together are the “Festa Major de Gracia” and the reading of George Orwell’s book ‘Homage to Catalonia’. that is not to say they don’t mix well, it is just not recommended (not by me anyways). let me explain…reading the book that cronicles the Civil War in Spain [...]
la sombra del viento
it sounds so mysterious and romantic in Español, which is exactly what this book was about. i won’t ruin the plot, but this story was absolutely gorgeous. the excerpt from the back cover:
Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the “Cemetery of Forgotten Books”, a labyrinthine library of obscure [...]