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Slovak Spring Ritual

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Coral Charm Peony ~ Mia Tarney

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Cochem, Germany, 1925

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Henri Biva (1848 - 1928)

Villeneuve-l'Étang embrumé

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Vogue, 1931. Photographed by George Hoyningen-Huene.

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You want to get better in life ? You must start from the bottom, from your lowest instincts, from the brute force of your body. Only from that dark primordial violence you can ascend to the virtuous light of the stars, the journey to heaven always starts in hell. ᚫ ᛏ

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Northern Germany, 1900

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Skieurs à Megève. 1938

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An iconic photo taken in Germany in 1931. On the back of the picture, the rabbi's wife wrote, "Our light will outlast their flag." One of the bravest pictures ever taken.

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more context/correction: the photograph was taken in december of 1932, less than two months before hitler became chancellor. the nazi party had already been the largest parliamentary faction for months being most successful in the state of schleswig-holstein where this picture was taken. the flagged building was their district office in the city of kiel. the photographers husband was rabbi dr. arthur posner who was the last rabbi in kiel before the holocaust. the SS had committed a bomb attack on the citys synagogue in the summer of the same year. his family and many other jewish inhabitants of kiel, making up the biggest jewish community in the state of schleswig-holstein at the time, fled to palestine or the usa in the following year.

this is the back of the photograph

"judah die"

says the flag-

"judah lives for ever!"

replies the light.

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Writing tips!

ah I truly don't feel qualified to give out any kind of writing advice, I don't think any of my writing is very good ! and I haven't done nearly enough of it recently. if anyone else is interested in the advice I would give, these are four things I try to do all the time that I think are the fundamentals of improving your writing.

+ read, read, read. you have to read a lot. and read all kinds of material from reports, to essays, to fiction, to poetry, to reviews, to articles, etc. the more broad and diverse and the higher number of things you read the more you are informing yourself and immersing yourself in writing and getting an intuitive understanding of what makes good writing.

+ keep a reading journal. more on the point above: active reading is important (meaning not just passively soaking up the basics of what you're reading but critiquing and questioning and noticing all kinds of details) and noting down your thoughts and your reflections on any piece of writing you do helps your brain to engage in understanding how a piece works.

+ practice. this is an obvious but of course essential one. something that is good to keep in mind is that what you write doesn't have to be good. you can make mistakes. you can write badly, as long as you learn from it.

+ revision. branching off from the point above, it's not really time and energy efficient to simply practice and write a lot but not really reflect on what you have done. reflecting on and revising and improving what you have written means you are forcing yourself to progress and refine your work rather than just producing a lot of work at the same level. one of the things I learned recently about Joan Didion is that she (and many great writers) revised things relentlessly.

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Four years of studying English Literature at university in journals. 2017-2021.

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You are one with your skis and nature. This is something that develops not only the body but the soul as well, and it has a deeper meaning for a people than most of us perceive.

- Fridtjof Nansen