The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Wednesday July 13th, 2022
When travel did by Nikos Laios
Is 2022 the year that travel died? I ponder this question as I take a run after work around the northern foreshore of Sydney Harbour. The first days of July, and it’s winter here, the skies are grey and it’s raining. It’s been raining for a week now and I run in the rain, and there’s something energising and transcendent about running in the rain under a cold misty sky. Usually this writer would be travelling back home to Europe at this time of the year, but much has changed with the world since the pandemic; the world has become a much more serious, sadder and dangerous place. Something has changed, altered forever, and I wonder whether what we held dear and how we lived pre-pandemic will ever return.
The onset of the pandemic has completely changed the way we work, and for modern western digital economies, like here in Australia for example; the existing digital and technological infrastructure has allowed the rapid transition of working from the office to working from home. The health rules imposed by the authorities here forced corporations and companies to alter the way they operate. In the early days of the pandemic, the city streets were empty, the towering steel and glass office towers were empty, and cities lost their reason for being because without people, cities became meaningless. The pandemic also stripped bare the illusions that working life had built-up over the last thirty years; the suits, Gucci shoes, shiny watches and jewellery, long boozy working lunchtimes, the Thursday and Friday night bars filled with office workers, and the hierarchical office politics. All this has been stripped bare and exposed as meaningless, where many now work from their home offices
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The We #poem by Jan Sand
“I doubt the me is singular
The sense is multilingualar
The I is sky and fingertips,
It’s tears and years and smiling lips”
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Sceptic feathers #40 #Cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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