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Hitherto Unblogged Poems from My Latest Book “The Seeking Soul” — https://www.amazon.in/dp/B0G4KCHV3W

The Corridor of Uncertainty

My buddy AV Satish Chandra
Now retired as prof of pol sci
From OU, tired as he already was
With the politics there
(Sigh, the gap, always a gap,
Between theory and practice)
Said to me more than a decade ago
With a humility that scholars have
He is ok to be walking
In the “corridor of uncertainty”
And with him then I would not agree
Hurts to agree most of the time
You may not have it all figured out
Now that I am older and wiser
I am inclined to tip my hat to him
And say, “Spoken like Socrates, chum”.

(AV Satish Chandra’s author page on Amazon — https://www.amazon.in/stores/author/B07TBWHH59)

The Search

I searched for God

But settled

For the girl next door

Who knows what I found

And what I did not.

What I See

Standing in the balcony

As it drizzles

I stretch out my hands

To feel the rain droplets

On my fingers

I see across the street

Two children playing with paper boats

And in front of the yonder house

I see a brand new hearse.

The Winter

It’s freezing

Leaves are all gone

I stand bare, half-smiling,

Knowing

Spring, too, will come

And trouble me

This year-round rigmarole.

She

She smiled

I smiled back

Without knowing

Why she smiled.

The Restraint

The lottery we never buy

Can haunt us for a lifetime.

The Truth That I Seek

I can never find

The truth that I seek

Assume I find it

How can I tell

It is the truth.

The Ultimate Paradox of Life

I keep saying

“I do not want to exist”

Yet how could I have said it

If I had never been born.

Does She Love Me?

I wanted to ask her

“Do you love me?”

Then let it go

I who was not sure

What love was.

Transience

The leaf on the tree

wonders

Which wind

Will separate them both.

The Flow

It started raining

And I got all confused

Which was my tear drop

And which the rain drop.

I just discovered this. The biography is a little weird but not totally inaccurate. It's always odd to read about yourself on the interwebz. And it does have all the books in the right order.

https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/joyce-lionarons/

#books #MyBooks

Photos of pages of the Indonesian Encyclopedia geography series featuring the entry about Yugoslavia. This book was published by PT Ichtiar Baru van Hoeve in 1989. This company is known as a producer of encyclopaedias and other reference books.

#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #encyclopedia #encyclopedias #encyclopaedia #encyclopaedias #yugoslavia #jugoslavija #jugoslavia #југославија #югославия #yougoslavie #book #books #mybook #mybooks #booklover #booklovers #bookish #bookworm #bookish

The book "Dibawah Bendera Revolusi" or "Under the Banner of Revolution" by the first President of the Republic of Indonesia, the Great Leader of the Indonesian Revolution, Sukarno. This book is a collection of Sukarno's writings before Indonesian independence which contain his thoughts on how to achieve Indonesian independence.

#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #sukarno #soekarno #irsukarno #irsoekarno #indonesia #book #books #mybook #mybooks #booklover #booklovers #bookish #bookworm #bibliophile #rare

Marlene Dietrich & Konstantin Paustovsky

Just finished 'The Story of a Life' by Konstantin Paustovsky (1892-1968), Russian writer nominated 4 times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was of Zaporozhian, Turkish + Polish descent + raised mostly in Ukraine

In her autobiography, Marlene Dietrich devoted an entire chapter to the author inspired by his novel 'Telegram' :
"This novel made so great an impression on me that I could no more forget it than I could the name of the author, of whom I had never heard before"
In 1964, Dietrich arrived in the Soviet Union on a concert tour. As soon as she got off the plane she asked about Paustovsky. Despite being ill, Paustovsky attended the performance + afterwards went up on the stage. “I was so shocked by his presence that, being unable to utter a word in Russian, I did not find any other way to express my admiration for him, except to kneel in front of him"

#konstantinPaustovsky #marlenedietrich #thestoryofalife #autobiography #sovietauthor #sovietwriter #russianwriter #russiannovelist #russianauthor #instabooks #booksofinstagram #mybookshelf #readinglist #mybooks #bookworld #books #ilovebooks #livres #biblio #buch #bücher #книги

Have you read Welcome to PHU as a serial? Do you own (or want to own) the first book in the series? Ready for the second book?

Keep an eye out here for the cover reveal for Missed Fortunes, coming Thursday! The pre-order will be up not long after that.

#coverreveal #welcometophu #mybooks #writing #bookpromotion

Here are my *announced* current and forthcoming books! Something else will be announced very soon. Everything is listed here: https://jendiagammon.com/2024/09/25/current-and-forthcoming-books/

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Today I'm reading "Insects of Ireland" by Arthur O'Pod #mybooks

Today I'm reading "The Sayings Of Mr. T" by P.T. de Fool

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Today I'm reading, "Marine Invertebrates That Were Inexplicably Mistaken For Vegetables" by C.Q. Cumber

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Il volume "Dalla compassione all'educazione. Vie emancipative comunitarie", che ho curato per il Mulino, raccoglie le ricerche congiunte di un gruppo di lavoro UNIMORE, e nell'insieme offre prospettive utili a inquadrare un tema che in questi giorni è tornato di attualità, di fronte al ritorno dell'immagine di un'educazione repressiva e autoritaria distante dagli orientamenti contemporanei

#Education #Scuola #MyBooks @histodon @histodons @[email protected] @[email protected]

Nel mio volume "Scuola e politica negli Stati Uniti", uscito quest'anno, cerco di offrire un quadro sintetico e agile degli ultimi 40 anni di politica scolastica USA, dando coordinate di base per inquadrare un panorama molto complesso e articolato, di cui in Italia si parla (e a cui ci si ispira) sempre più spesso, ma acriticamente e senza la necessaria consapevolezza.
Riassumo qualcosa in un THREAD 👇

#Università #HigherEd #MyBooks #Storia
@histodons @scuola

Breve 🧵 per presentare il mio ultimo volume di ricerca, una storia dell'introduzione in Italia del dottorato di ricerca pubblicata dal Mulino.
Si tratta di un tema che proprio all'uscita del libro ha conosciuto un momento di inaspettata popolarità a causa di una discussione sulla natura del PhD: corso di studio o lavoro accademico?
Ebbene, per sua natura esso può essere solo entrambe le cose 👇