Alberobello, 2012. by Carmelo Eramo Photography on Flickr.
aww!! How miss it!! Please, dear 2013, let me come back!!…
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According to one Spanish saying: "If you cross a Galician on the stairs, you can't tell if they´re going up or down"
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What Was the Last Book You Loved? We Want Your Essays!
We’re excited to announce a Tumblr Storyboard + The Rumpus partnership to highlight Tumblr writers and the books they love — an extension of The Rumpus’s ongoing “Last Book I Loved” series. Here’s how it works: Got a book you can’t stop thinking about? Send us a writeup – a little bit book review and a lot about why you loved it – along with a short bio. Beginning next month, we’ll publish our favorites every Friday, both on Storyboard and TheRumpus.net. Visit our SUBMIT PAGE for more information — and get reading!
(Card catalogue scan from the Palatina Library at the Biblioteca Nazionale in Florence.)
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“In 1992, I went to Amsterdam for the first time. This journey I had so longed to make was a kind of pilgrimage to me. I was dying to see the Potato Eaters. In front of this painting of mysterious fervour, the most deeply religious of all those I have seen, the true representation of the Holy Family, I suppressed the impulse to get down on my knees. I was afraid of drawing attention, like one of those eccentric tourist that wander about a cathedral in sunglasses and Bermuda shorts.
There are two words in Spanish: hervor, boiling, and fervor, fervour. In Galician there is only one: fervor. The glow from the boiling dish of potatoes ascends towards the faint lamp and lights up the faces of the peasant family, who contemplate the sacred food, the humble fruit of the earth, with fervour.”
Manuel Rivas. Vermeer´s Milkmaid & other stories, translated by Jonathan Dunne
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A rare vintage photograph of an onna-bugeisha, one of the female warriors of the upper social classes in feudal Japan.
Often mistakenly referred to as “female samurai”, female warriors have a long history in Japan, beginning long before samurai emerged as a warrior class.
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I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something.
So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.
Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
Make your mistakes, next year and forever.
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