Presentation of MoMa’s Writing Club on Friday 26 July 2024. Words: Anastasia Karavasileiou Participating in the Writing Club of MoMa (the Museum of Modern Art in New York), I felt a part of a global creative community. I felt free to express myself. The mindfulness practice at the beginning of…
A really interesting and important documentary to watch. Learn about how Native American Tribes are healing their landscapes and communities through the restoration of their traditional land stewardship practices. Their knowledge is a great example for us to think and act as communities and not being dependent on impersonal structures….
Vasilis Tsantilas is known for his great instrumental music. You can watch our previous conversation here: Συνομιλία με τον μουσικό Βασίλη Τσαντήλα Now, he creates a new musical piece, which is like a spiritual journey and follows a passage form sadness and darkness into release and light. He writes…
Achieving the joke is a rare gift or a special talent for combining contradictions. In literature this ability seems to be even rarer, but Sedaris has it uninterruptedly for decades now. He has cultivated in many ways his talent for drawing humor from unexpectable sources. In fact, his sharpness and…
Author of the post: Anastasia Karavasiliou Scott Jordan, who lives in Queens, New York, collects small treasures in his little shelter. A collection of 300-year-old objects, digging in old departures, wells and ditch pits. On his home shelves, he exhibites colored vials, porcelain dolls, ceramics, and a weapon from American…
The documentary “Among Giants” is the recording of a struggle to preserve Redwood’s natural forests. Redwood National and State Parks (RNSP) is a complex of many state and national parks, located along the coast of Northern California. It includes Redwood National Park (founded in 1968) and California’s Del Norte Coast,…
Megumi Ueno’s short film below is called “I have a little heart”. It is her pilgrimage to a common Shrine of Buddhists and Shintoists. She attends a ceremony and wonders about the speed and easiness with which we cross the world today, failing to stand like other pilgrims in the…
How we can call the distance between two points? Absence-distance-waiting. In this period Zama lives, passing from the historical to the eternal time, passing from the void to the existence, passing from the loss of egoism to death and to the rebirth of the self. While waiting to be relocated…
The word means good time and constitutes euphemism for the night. Thus, in Hesiod we read μακραὶ γὰρ καὶ ἐπίρροθοι εὐφρόναι εἰσί. That is, the nights are long and allies. Hesiod sees in the long nights a helper and protector. Darkness provides its own security. And Proclus adds that the…
Memory is the core. Historical memory, lived memory and collective experience, biological memory and its loss. Memory is also the web of narration. It spreads in the form of a short treatise, a collective narrative transmitted by the elder women, personal thoughts recorded as a diary. Thus, every evolution in…