The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Sunday May 8th, 2022 – World Ovarian Cancer Day
World Ovarian Cancer Day, is the one day of the year we globally raise our voices in solidarity in the fight against ovarian cancer. While the World Ovarian Cancer Coalition works on many fronts, World Ovarian Cancer Day is our flagship awareness-raising initiative, and is the key date in our calendar. Supported by close to 200 organizations from around the world, our social media reach grows exponentially every year, with 2021 directly reaching over eighteen million up from three million the previous year – a growth of nearly 500%.
The Degenerate Gambler by Nikos Laios
Gambling is an interesting topic to write about and this article on gambling has been something that this author has wanted to write for a while now, having witnessed firsthand the toxic results of gambling both in my own family and those around me, and the acceptance that gambling is indeed a societal problem. This theme is especially relevant for first world countries, and most particularly in Australia. Now when one thinks of gambling, one would have thought that the USA was the world’s biggest gambling nation; the bright lights of Las Vegas or Atlantic City come to mind here, but one would be mistaken.
Now the title of this article ‘ The Degenerate Gambler’ is a very strong one indeed, and one would be right in asking whether this a reference to a particular person? The person who inspired this article is mainly this writer’s late father, but also indirectly applies to many others that this writer has observed over the years. To give the reader some background and context, a brief family biography is required here to understand the genesis of this article on the theme of gambling, and on the wider themes of materialism and consumerism. This writer’s late father was from the highlands of Greece and learned card playing in Greece, and his gambling blossomed upon migration to Australia. I was still a young boy when my father would take me to tavernas in Greece and gambling dens in Australia to watch him gamble.
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Falling #poem by Abigail George
“Our choices change the future
evolution of the universe. His
body is heaven’s plateau. A cold
and abstract metaphor. In old
age I will still remember the intimacy”
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Fika bonding! #032 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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