My friend tells me that I know how to choose my timing.After five years, I return to Istanbul. And immediately protests.OK, not because of me, I am just a calm observer of events. Well, the internal affairs of Turkey.So, on Tuesday evening, March 18, I walk to Taksim Square. I want to take a photo…
Category: something in between
My Mother
Some fragments of my mother’s life.And our shared memories. She was the best mother, but then so are all mothers…She was born into a working-class family in Borovnica, Slovenia. I remember how happy she was when I once gave her a framed print of the famous Borovnica railway bridge, which was then considered the longest…
Julijana Žalar
June 18, 1932 – January 23, 2025 I miss you already…
The Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation
Today is April 27th. And like all the years after the Second World War, we celebrate the founding of The Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation on this day.The Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation (Slovene: Osvobodilna fronta slovenskega naroda), or simply Liberation Front (Osvobodilna fronta, OF), originally called the Anti-Imperialist Front (Protiimperialistična fronta, PIF),…
Summer of 83
When you ever feel badand you’ll walk barefoot on the grassearly in the morningthat the dew will gatheron your feetand you’ll be clothed in red silkand you’ll have a yellow flowerin your fair hairand the first rays of sunlightwill kiss you gently. That’s when you remember me,the poor poet who loved you.
2024
The old year is quietly leaving,the new one is mysteriously coming. Happy Holidays and happy New Year!
Tina Turner and Me
Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939 – May 24, 2023) was a singer, songwriter and actress. Known as the “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll”, she rose to prominence as the lead singer of the husband-wife duo Ike & Tina Turner before launching a successful career as a solo performer. She was noted…
Ravnikar and Me
After working as a construction technician for a year, I realized that this was not the job for me. The idea of enrolling in the Faculty of Architecture has matured. As the writer Fran S. Finžgar once wrote – Let him be a student!But it wasn’t that easy. First I had to pass the entrance…
When the Day Comes
When the day comesafter the night of dyingeverything seems so differentand yetlooking for traces of blood,and the smell of burnt meat,the scratches of bullets on the walls of my room.My trembling heart in your hands.Hide it in your eyes,lock it up in your chest.Can’t you hear them coming from the dark depthsto take everything from…
How to Open a Bottle of Wine
Of course, we are talking about those real bottles of wine that are still closed with a cork stopper. Unfortunately, many bottles today are closed with a metal cap. Some with plastic fake cork. And wine in a tetrapak is also available… without comment.So to open classic bottles we need a corkscrew.The Cambridge Dictionary records…