For a long time, with no expectations. Just writing.
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Drumming and creativity: build your own world
Creativity in drumming and ways to express ourselves are possible to explore whatever our skills are: we do not need to lock in a room with a metronome for ten more years. Musical knowledge can be used to express our own ideas. There is so much information, there are so many possibilities, and there are…
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Poetry, yoga and uprooting. Kikidorinen and a search that gives it unity
I lived the uprooting of my country as the uprooting of my writing. As if pulling up by the roots a vital power that had no fertile ground in another language. After some time I developed a personal writing in English, that I was able to keep expanding thanks to this website. However, the power…
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The Handmaid´s Tale after eight years: how far from reality?
The sixth and final season of The Handmaid’s Tale was finally released last April: after eight years, it ends a powerful and brave story about inner strength and resistance. However, the adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s work to the big screen will be continued in the spin-off The Testaments, based on the sequel novel by the…
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A little fire: two years blazing
Migrating is an intense experience, full of challenges and surprises. New worlds and significant losses. One of the biggest is the one of the native speaker status. For me, the written word was always the main way of expression and tool work. When I arrived in Australia in the beginning of 2023, the feeling of…
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About the feminist Joke Smit and some curiosities of the Netherlands
The feminist and politician Joke Smit and her work marked the beginning of the second wave of feminism in the Netherlands. This article will describe a little bit of her life and contributions, together with a few features of the Netherlands that I already could observe in the time I’ve spent here. First of all:…
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Who am I? Asmita and the stories about ourselves
Along our lives we create successive narratives about ourselves, which try to explain who we are, and fill with meaning the ways we behave. As the years go by, we start to realise that all those clusters have gone one after the other; all the tags we used to define with, sooner or later became…
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Why do we keep writing?
What is the force that keeps us doing something like writing? Which is the real reason why we insist on putting one word behind the other, while the years run away and nothing beyond that has come? Do we write to get readers? I do not think so. Together with the question about if I…
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A short review about Besakih Temple and Balinese Hinduism
Besakih is the main, oldest and holiest Hindu temple in Bali, among the more than 10.000 temples that exist on the island. Located on the slopes of the volcano Agung, it was founded in the VIII century by Rsi Markandeya, an East Indian priest who spread Hinduist teachings on the island, although it is considered…
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Learning a second language: language and migrant experience two years later
The process of learning a second language is long and never linear. However, two years after I left Argentina, I can tell that my English has really grown and strengthened. Australia has been an intense, hard and also fun school, challenging and pushing me all the time beyond my limits. A second language will never…
A little fire 