Time by its nature remains hostile to every life. We come into this world, we live in it and pass away, and all upon its severity. …
A passage on women’s empowerment.
The service of nurses in frontline hospitals on both sides of the conflict was not an easy undertaking. Often very young women struggled with the objectification of men, both doctors, and patients. On top of this came the stress of being responsible for another person’s existence, of having to…
By Bogusław Michalec (in Martin Smallridge interpretation, translated from polish)
Isn’t it dear to you
that fear, you lived in for so many years
as in a foreign, cold
province? Of which
you contemplated upon by ages, undertaking a journey
or, instead, within domestic silence
dressing thy temples… How could you then
omit it with the intention? …
Today my seven-year-old daughter told me something I wouldn’t even expect from an adult: "Learning history is such a picture that we carry in our minds that reminds us of who we are, where we came from and where we are going." …
Have you ever wondered about your history? Why did it unfold a certain way? To what extent do we guide our own lives and to what level do we follow a path that was set for us? Of course, we can argue about the nature of fate as such, but…
Martin Smallridge
Marcin Malek, also known as Martin Smallridge, Poet, writer, playwright, and publicist. Editor-in-chief of Agora24 on Medium.com. Lives and writes in Ireland
