The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Sunday April 23rd, 2023
Smith and Carol #ShortStory #Fiction by Abigail George
Julian Smith was respectable but unhappy. A psychiatrist for nearly three decades he had experience on his side. He had a married daughter but they had never really been close.
‘Smith, you’re a gladiator. How do you do this day in and day out offering advice? How do you live?’ It was on Carol’s lips but she didn’t say anything.
‘Sadness, Carol, always calls for introspection. Can you find the time to write?’ Smith smiled at her.
‘I love shopping the same way I love writing. The older I get it seems that I have all the time in the world to write. In my dream my mother, she didn’t have cancer. We had a relationship.’
‘That’s good. That’s a good thing. Cherish the time that you had together.’ Smith gave a hoarse little cough.
‘So, tell me a little bit about what you are writing now. What inspires you, your imagination and creativity? Are you an aspirant novelist, poet or a short story writer?’ Carol wanted Smith to tell her that she was still young. She wanted Smith to ask her to tell him what she thought of love. She wanted to hear those bright magic words out of his mouth, ‘Are you in love or are you waiting for love?’
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Shorn #poem by Jan Sand
“At birth we are capacities untried.
Nature prunes off potentialities.
Our culture directs where effort is applied
To create subsets of realities.”
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Mundy and the Khyber Rifles by Rene Wadlow
The current tensions and armed violence on both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier and the Khyber Pass which links the two countries brings to mind the theosophical novel King of the Khyber Rifles (1916) written by Talbot Mundy, who birth anniversary we note on 23 April.
The novel was written by Talbot Mundy, in part, to express the workings of karma, that ancient law of individual responsibility which gives humans their dignity. “We act and react, do and leave undone, think and refuse to think, stand firm or are seduced while karma- incorruptible and inescapable –inscribes our spiritual progress on the rolls of destiny. The Law adjusts all balances and measures, the exact effort of every thought and deed, detecting each hidden motive.”
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2nd opinion, quarantined! #09 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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