The articles, the opinions, the stories and the cartoons, Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday 19th, 2021
Death of a neighbourhood by Nikos Laios
Photos, including the Cover photo by Nikos Laios
A large majority of people in the western world now live in cities, and invariably in large cities, and these cities contain neighbourhoods which are self-contained small communities. The industrial revolution stimulated the growth of large cities, and over the course of the twentieth century, large cities in Europe, the USA and around the world soaked in an increasing number of people who made their homes in the honeycombed cement, brick and steel warrens. From the gaslit streets of the early Twentieth Century to the new cities of neon lights reflecting on cold steel and glass towers.
Since the dawn of human history society has evolved in villages and small towns, places which glowed with the warmth of the hearth, where smiling faces listened to myths and stories around fireplaces. The annual spring and summer rituals, the sowing, planting and reaping, and various festivals would mark the calendar. That’s the kind of life that this writer knew growing up in the highlands of Northwestern Greece for a period of time in my early years. But like most, I now live in a large growing city that seems on the surface of things to be a cold and sterile place without emotion. A shallow materialistic city in the new world without culture. Sydney like many other cities in the new world has that new and shinny quality to it. It’s a harbour city with extraordinary beauty, and for many years I was convinced that it was a cold and sterile place.
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Lord Shiva #poem by George Cassidy Payne
“We have traveled
ten thousand
dreamless miles
without each other”
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Mika Toxica 21#09 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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