In the coming months, the two spent every market day together, exploring Kalaw and its vicinity as if they had discovered an uncharted island. They investigated the place with the…
do not praise me for exceptional kindness, for I thought to give more than I received, not seeing that I have been given everything, everything. Do not wonder either at…
but if a living dance upon dead minds why,it is love;but at the earliest spear of sun perfectly should disappear moon’s utmost magic,or stones speak or one name control…
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/06/13/110613fa_fact_lahiri
WHEN THE DAY’S rain has ended and the sky wears it dark as a stain go and see what you have collected: water filling up the flower boxes, overflowing the teacups…
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my…
Milan Kundera describes a woman entering a sauna and proclaiming five things about her likes, and her dislikes. Kundera uses the moment to comment on an aspect of humanity,…
I take pleasure in the way the rain beats its wings on the back of the floatin city. The dust comes down. The air is left clean, crossed by leaves…
Words and Stones By Yanki Tauber In Mezhibuzh, the hometown of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov (founder of Chassidism, 1698-1760), two local residents were involved in a bitter dispute. One…
“Do you think maybe we could get it back if I offered him more than he paid me for it?” she said. “You probably don’t think that’s a sensible suggestion,…
Lights in the Hand 