Katarína Varsiková

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Don´t pay the ferryman… before he...

The title is a reference to a classic song. The photo courtesy to one of the weekend participants. 🙂 Waulsort. Waha. Ohain. Some of the toponyms in Wallonia sound so ancient and soft as if they came from a fantasy book by Ursula LeGuin...

When the bees sting

photo Danube beach in the area of Devin Bratislava. Several encounters with old friends I have not seen for decades; exchanging life stories. I probably won’t surprise you saying it is a lot of juicy-story material: separations, love affairs...

Equanimity and Paradox

“You don’t have to do it all alone,” she says in a calm sure voice. My new collaborator. We prepared together a presentation of the newly published book. Her name is Katarina and the popularity of this name across generations is beyond my...

A Bar of Lavender Soap

A bar of lavender soap lies beside the wash basin. Each morning, when I come to the bathroom that is not mine, for a glimpse of a second, I mistake it for a mobile phone. Similar shape, and smartphones have become so omnipresent, so...

The Third One

“They can let you our of jail now, because they have put the jail inside your mind.” Starhawk. Mocking other people was a pattern that ran in our family. Whatever could serve as a pretext to scorn: Hungarian accent in Slovak, funny...

Kruhy/Season Loops

Foto @Zuzanka Vidrová. Jún ukončuje pravidelné kurzy jogy. Tie, pre ktoré je v kalendári vyhradený deň a hodina. Kam dobiehame z práce, stretávame sa, odchádzame iní, a želáme si fajn týždeň. Pondelkový prebieha v jednej z budov európskych...