No. 17 in the series Tuesday’s Torrent.
I wrote this story without any access to internet research. First for me. It was written on the Delta flight from JFK to Prague. There was no wifi connection on this particular Delta flight. I had a choice to not write—good excuse—or see where the mind goes when you have minimal information in front of you. I did have access to the New York Times and the Duty Free magazine.
Initial research from an article titled “Kansai Confidential” by Deborah Caulfield Rybak.
Dedicated to Sixto from Ecuador.
I liked Nara when she told me her very first story. Her English wasn’t perfect but I ... read more »
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No. 16 in the series Tuesday’s Torrent.
Photograph courtesy of Tim Corbeel.
Capital “T” Truth
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
~ Max Plank
Before Thais was interested in architecture she had an ambitious interest in physics.
Thais became engrossed in physics after reading a paper published in 1933 by the Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky showing that visible matter is ... read more »
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No. 15 in the series Tuesday’s Torrent.
Photograph courtesy of Tim Corbeel.
kinein, from Greek, to move
All memories belong to a Love that can’t be named.
Ovidio Ozseb Hermann, a retired Physics professor, was known for bicycling around town, a small village town not distinct from neighboring towns near Dorking, south of London in Surrey, England.
Ovidio often rode his bicycle on a small road surrounded by rapeseed crops—a tall, rough weedlike plant bursting with coarse yellow flowers—which draped broadly and brightly across an always neutral landscape. Some days he would stop by Ari’s Shop, a coffee shop that only served breakfast on Mondays. Ari ... read more »
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No. 14 in the series Tuesday’s Torrent.
Photograph courtesy of Tim Corbeel.
intuit verb [ trans. ] understand or work out by instinct. ORIGIN late 18th cent. (in the sense [instruct, teach] ): from Latin intuit- ‘contemplated,’ from the verb intueri, from in- ‘upon’ + tueri ‘to look.’
They say somewhere near Inishrush, Ireland, there is a nameless, whistle-stop village, alongside Clady river, just upstream from the ford on Ford Road between Clady and Inishrush.
There you can find a man who tells you about horses’ hooves and if you can understand him you understand everything about your life.
Aindriu Manus is his name and ... read more »
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No. 13 in the series Tuesday’s Torrent.
Photograph courtesy of Tim Corbeel.
It is no easy task to take a macro shot of such a tiny creature only found in southern Europe. Tim took this photo in Alès, South of France. He says he put his tripod and camera in a small stream and waited quite a while. The water level just came under his knees. He waited until finally one of the Copper Demoiselles finally sat down. Very nice capture! : )
The memory of silence is loud.
A distinct recollection I have, clear as the oxygen rich river, is that of an impromptu fishing ... read more »
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