The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Sunday December 11th, 2022 – International Mountain Day
The theme of this year’s International Mountain Day (IMD) on 11 December will be Women move mountains. Women play a key role in mountains’ environmental protection and social and economic development. They are often the primary managers of mountain resources, guardians of biodiversity, keepers of traditional knowledge, custodians of local culture, and experts in traditional medicine.
DANCER and the DANCE – a Narrative by David Sparenberg
I have, or at least had, a fairly solid sense of who I am and what my life is about. I am a dancer, disciplined and hard working. For the most part, dancers have short careers. It is all about the body and with injuries and aging; time shrinks the parameters of fully controlled and realizable movement; few of us of us are fortunate to go beyond two, or three at best, decades. I am also a choreographer. This adds dimension, respect, and duration to my work, and I have attained local recognition and a sizeable following.
Recently I created a dance which was to showcase who I am at my core, both as a, mmm, let me say it, both as an existential being, a thinking, feeling, artistic person, and as a performer. I set about rehearsing. Like most other dancers, I am a neurotic perfectionist, so I rehearse and rehearse, and rehearsing, making changes, tweaking a gesture here, a movement or transition there, until the effect quality throughout is as right as right can be to me. That is, as always, until this newest dance which was to have my name on it was as right and ready as could be. Accolades are important to us, to dancers, well, more than important. We are vain creatures, necessarily confident on the external image side, internally often insecure, easily feeling ashamed of what we do before an audience, a mistake can open a trap door dropping into depression if not obscurity. I have seen enough of the circus wards of disillusioned wreckage and the graveyards of addiction and failure.
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An Ending #poem by Dr. Lawrence Nannery
“Mid-morning. Simple rowboat, the island in the middle of the lake.
Gently, they helped one another out of the boat.
Up through the scrubbrush, up to the top of the center hill,
where the big tree spread itself over all.
Graciously, they sat together under the great tree,
back to back, leaning on one another,
facing opposite ways, because what they were about to say
might be too strong for the eye of the listener to bear.”
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Always something; the family edition #50 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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