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      by   Tatiana P.     I recently watched the film Fjord, (Romania, France and Norway production) that won the 2026 Golden Palm at Cannes Festival. A family, with 5 children from infant to puberty, migrates  to  a small Norwegian town,   from Romania, where they lived for many years.   The mother is Norwegian and the father Romanian.  The children's native language is Romanian and they speak only a little bit of Norwegian. They attend school and are being embraced by their new teachers and classmates with warmth and an open minded attitude, while their Norwegian is getting better day by day. They make new friends and especially the teenage daughter is getting very close with a local girl her age. So everything seems to be normal and the family enjoys the new environment. But this family has a very special characteristic. They are religious people. Christians that go to church at least on Sundays, pray ev...
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                                                                                  painting by ALIX MALKA My Greek doctor. What an amazing guy he was! After a brief session with questions, he filled quickly a form with my answers, got that as feed back in the end with some instructions added the very last minute for my medication, very handy, he gave me a pill to swallow right there and then to sooth my belly and reduce my bloatness. That took a few seconds but what followed felt like a chat between friends, life-long friends! We small talked a little bit about Japanese and Greek cuisines, food hot spots around Athens and fave dishes! Very ironic considering my gut situation! Anyway, back to the chat with my Greek doctor, I felt really journeying into a different culture since an incide...
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  The Oberon Wing From the correction agents Maxifern & dp.Morella Born in November You are convinced you shouldn't give that person a second  chance! (You know who!).  You have a dilemma over calling first or not after a date? Tip: Stop calculating everything! Stop keeping scores! Surrender for a change!   Me: Life, love the universe and everything is a  freaking war waged when you are not looking.  There is no surrendering, there’s only fighting and  the occasional negotiation.  And even if there was, that’s just not me…
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                                            Next stop Holargos photo by Takanashi I don't know if it was the sardines, the ouzo shots or the strawberry cocktail that followed but that day was my first to ever taste the bitter sweet experience of staying up all night because my gut felt too excited. Once or twice came really close to dial 166, the Greek emεrgency number  but call to say what? What was going down was too embarasing and fadely convincing:  My intestines are too loud for me to fall asleep doesn't really sound like a real crisis! Does it? So, I decided to just stick it out and wait for the sun to come up to take any action, you know in the light of things..To my horror, as soon as the first rays pierced my blinds, I realized couldn't pretend any longer. -'Enough with the samourai stand! Spoke harshly to myself.. There was no doubt, I was in a funny health ...
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  Aging is a form of failing? **(A warning for the youngsters out there, too)   by Maxifern    Yes! So what? There is worse!  Aging is humiliating! Aging is the lobby leading to death! Uncertainty, insecurity, self-doubt,  fears, emotional discomfort,  confusion, incompetence and  humiliation! Are they really the  symptoms of aging and failing  or the results of failure? Learning, living, transforming,  expanding are all discomfort  zones full of demands.  Growing both physically and  mentally involves pain and agony!  Overcoming obstacles, achieving  goals and manifesting dreams  require focus, reflection and  synthesizing! Growth, in few  words, is a struggle! It is friction! Our behavior, attention and the  environment, constantly rewire  our living network which  predominantly resides in the brain.  This process, scientifically called  neuroplasticity, defines our ...
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  t he Oberon correction group agents: Maxifern n dp.Morella Born in October Feeling proud of being right all the time? Feeling safe at home? Sleeping well at nights? Tip: There's more to life than a stable, predictable routine.  Embark on an adventure of any kind FGS! Me: Yes, yes and yes. Being full and satisfied,  only something delectable would quicken my  appetite once again.  Do not fret dear, I’m far from hungry.
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The "little room"

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  *my 'adapted self' portrait * never posed for Ickiro but somehow he managed to 'see' perfectly my 'mask' Tokyo, 9 years ago.  The moment I was left to wrestle with just me, in t he 'little room' of my mind. Me, me, me!! I kept looking in the mirror and  seeing my reflection, unrecognisable me.. Looked way older and paler.. My thoughts tangled up,  stack in a corner of my brain, the darkest part where hate,  anger and anguish breed. There was I, all of me checked into  the heartbreak hotel suite just being annihilated  by my long-term boyfriend: - I don't really love you,I am in love with Mai... It was always her, you were the closest I could get to her- No surprised here at all, I knew it, I had felt it.. On many instances, I could sense something  non-linear to his greetings and gestures towards her..  But no! I wouldn't admit it, I couldn't make a case  about this or discuss it with either of them.  Two people I ha...
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