The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday June 13th, 2022 – International Albinism Awareness Day
International Albinism Awareness Day (IAAD) is celebrated annually on June 13 to celebrate the human rights of persons with albinism worldwide. Around the mid-2000s, reports made public a rising number of violent attacks on and murders of persons with albinism in Tanzania. Many reports have accused perpetrators of attributing magical powers to the bodies of persons with albinism, and thus being motivated to use them for lucky charms and occult rituals. Until 2015, perpetrators killed more than 70 victims and harmed many more. In response, the Tanzania Albinism Society (TAS) and other NGOs began campaigning for the human rights of persons with albinism.
The blue journey #ShortStory #fiction by Abigail George
It was Florence who taught Sofia how to clean house. Wash windows. Scrub floors. Florence who lived in the township of Soweto.
Sofia, my daughter, I want her to say. I never wanted you to have abandonment issues. I never wanted you to talk about our relationship to a psychotherapist or write about how I never wanted you. All I want her to say is three words ‘I love you’ not even ‘I love you most of all’ or ‘I love you best’ just three simple words. ‘I love you’. And two more words. ‘You’re mine’ and five more words ‘I have always wanted you’, and three more for the darkness of this open road called life. ‘You were wanted’. I called that country ‘Childhood’. The chords of the seashore were a waterfall and the blue clouds of the day the confetti of life and sweetness. I have no use for tears. My mother is beautiful. Elegant. A class act. Having a beautiful mother, growing up and then not being beautiful in that way gave me courage.
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At dawn #poem #painting by Amir Khatib
“at dawn,
When the top of the mountain shines
Like a legendary sapphire crown,
And the night has filled my heart with lusts,
I have a desire to steal this mountain!
I know what I have to do;”
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William Butler Yeats: A Road to the Higher Self by Rene Wadlow
William Butler Yeats, whose birth anniversary we mark on 13 June, had three inter-related passions: a revival of Irish culture as a necessary contribution to political independence; an understanding of present disorders and violence as part of a transition to a New Age and a new system of values: a need to find avenues for self-development leading to a Higher Self.
It was as a poet of The Celtic Twilight (1893) stressing the need to revive an understanding of Irish folk culture, largely pagan rather than Roman Catholic that he came to public attention. With the creation of the Abbey Theatre with Lady Gregorry, he tried to bring this conception of Irish culture to a wider public which did not fully understand the use of symbols and symbolic personalities. Yet Yeats was convinced that a cultural renewal was necessary for a solid base for political independence.
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Always something; the family edition #35 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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