From the monthly archives:

July 2007

Eight years have passed since I read this book for the first time. A neigh­bour from across the hall rec­om­mended it dur­ing a din­ner party, and I was intrigued by the title. I was not sure what to expect, so I was delighted as I read it and found an inter­est­ing and easy to read […]

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I just read a ‘damn Inter­est­ing’ arti­cle. On it, the author explains how the ‘men­tally dis­or­dered’ have a much more accu­rate view of our world than that of ‘nor­mal peo­ple’. As he explains in the open­ing para­graphs, although “real­is­tic per­cep­tions [of our world] have been con­sid­ered essen­tial to good men­tal health”, this is far from […]

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Que es poesia?

by The Crazy Colombian on July 7, 2007

in Life, Poem

Image by OrangeAcid
(a poem by Gus­tavo Adolfo Bec­quer)
¿Qué Es Poesía?

¿Qué es poesía?, dices mien­tras clavas
En mi pupila tu pupila azul.
¡Qué es poesía! ¿Y tú me lo pre­gun­tas?
Poesía eres tú.
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(Loose trans­la­tion)
What is poetry? whis­per your lips
while you stare into my soul.
What is poetry! And you ask me?
Poetry is all of you.
For more poetry, visit the following links:

Tomor­row […]

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Over the last 12 months , I have been on a jour­ney of self-exploration and dis­clo­sure. Through this jour­ney, I’ve had some dif­fi­cult times and chal­leng­ing moments. I also have had peo­ple I respect tell me I lost the plot. One thing in com­mon in both instances was that I let my emo­tions and my […]

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Zen poetry: Samsara

by The Crazy Colombian on July 7, 2007

in Life, Poem

Six months
of Change
Six Months
of Suf­fer­ing
Six Months
of Love
Six months
of hap­pi­nessThe nature of Sam­sara:
to realise through daily life
of the empti­ness of ‘I’.
To live in all its glory
the teach­ings of enlight­ened ones
That noth­ing lasts,
All changes,
and we just are
rip­ples on a pond;
rip­ples that for­got
that we are all just water;
rip­ples that for­got
that we are all the same.
Just water in […]

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A great colombian writer

by The Crazy Colombian on July 6, 2007

in Books, Review

Have you heard of Gabriel Gar­cia Mar­quez?
I thought you’d have.
And I bet you have not heard of Ger­man Cas­tro Caycedo. Unlike Gar­cia Mar­quez, Colombia’s most famous writer, Ger­man focuses on non-fiction. His pro­lific work has cov­ered an incred­i­ble range of top­ics that expose Colombia’s mod­ern and com­plex social land­scape; to name a few:

Mi alma se la dejo […]

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