A moment in time - Kurdistan, 2
There are moments that surprise me with their surreal and inexplicable beauty.
Such as when, on the mountains, there is a black sky that is heavy with rain and hail.
Cold feet try not to slip on the insidious mud.
The houses all around are built with a mixture of rammed earth and leftovers of weapons: the curled tip of a Katyusha rocket not too far from my left ear.
The panorama opens up in a succession of snow-capped mountain tops and minefields.
Strong wind gusts make me lose balance.
And an ex peshmerga proudly looks at me and starts singing a passage from a Verdi opera.
Kurdistan, 20 months later
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Falling in Love with an Idea and Making it a Thing
You run your fingers against your cowlicks
And explain to me what it means to
Love Everything: Corrupted Love
Now your hair vacillates between Nature
And Art: Time, the great bear, will make his
Entry and Exit upon whim and your
Hair and your Argument will rest, constant.
Big Love: of Big Things, Large Ideas
Of Grand Scales and Everything, is Love-
Corrupted: The Great Bear is but made up
of its parts, every strand of fur, every star
Irreverent to detail, you turn
Crumbs into metaphors, magnifying a molecule.
I pray you: Let little things be-little.
Submitted by Himali Singh Soin
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Offensive Hand Gestures When Traveling
Nearly everyone all over the globe knows that flashing the middle finger is meant as a huge insult to the recipient. However, many common hand gestures which are perfectly innocent in the US are in fact quite dangerous in other parts of the world. Here are seven of the most hazardous ones:
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