Deciding moments

Goodbye Berlin, Hello Rasquera

by Andree 9 January 2010
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How to turn a Drama into a Romantic Comedy Greetings from Rasquera! Never heard of it? Good. That’s why I am here. Rasquera is a quiet village in the Catalunyan Countryside. 775 people live here and since two weeks I am one of them. But this story starts almost two years earlier in Berlin. I [...]

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D for Death

by Benedikt 17 December 2009
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Life is a Death Trap Or is it Not? In the TV series “Band of Brothers” revolving around the soldiers from the 101st American Airborne Division during World War II, the legendary Lieutenant Ronald Speirs gives a frightened soldier, Albert Blithe, a lecture on the matter of death: “We’re all scared. You hid in that [...]

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Break Down at the Playground

by Shailia 17 November 2009
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Little Jack Little Jack didn’t need a push. Impetus. Dizzy on the up-rush, he ran in. First see, first play. To the jungle gym. Up the middle grid, to the tip top. Hinged knee swings like open doors. Hair flying round. Smiles seem like frowns. World upside down. To the wobbly thing. Horse on a [...]

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For the Love of Bruno

by Shailia 1 October 2009
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I am sitting with a plant named Bruno “Bruno” on its label let’s me know so. So, I ask about Bruno. Bruno once belonged to Deniz. Deniz gave the wilting Bruno to Ines. Ines revived and relocated Bruno. Bruno is back to verdure and now sitting pertly on an unoccupied desk at an agency in [...]

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The Old Lady Dialogs

by Shailia 19 September 2009

It must have been more than ten years ago when I discovered her. Probably around the time Mark Getty and Jonathan Klein were in the midst of a thrilling but risky start-up phase, working toward a vision of licensing imagery online. However, their global breakthrough was still to come and so I was in an [...]

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In the Beginning

by Shailia 20 August 2009
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Food for thought: How you can decide to feel inadequate and teach yourself to feel bad. But also, how you can decide to feel relief and teach yourself to have faith. What if it is your perfect plan to be imperfect. And what if it is your determination to be a living work in progress.

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