The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Sunday January 23rd, 2022 – National Pie Day
HUMAN SOUL and the DEMON of the INHUMAN by David Sparenberg
The further soul is diminished, the more the mind becomes confused. When soul is buried alive or forced into exile, the mind falls prey to chaos. Too often cleverness is but a mask for pretending madness is not mad.
The demon of the inhuman delights in soul’s oppression and prohibition, and so much more so in dominating soullessness and deep stirrings.
Easy enough to control or annihilate bodies. Tyranny, through militant and militarized ideologies, is efficient in the politics of control and annihilation.
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“No meal is complete without family” #poem by Abigail George
“Love, how you taught me the bonds of family.
And how you sometimes held me close and kissed me.”
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Gravitas, Grudges, Grit #ShortStory #Fiction By Ian C Smith
Alone in the dark hours of morning I computer-track my son’s progress in the Kona Ironman, a thin blue line edging across a screen. Checking emails, I learn my nephew will drive me later to his boyhood rural hospital. His aged mother, my only sister, is gravely ill. A long-legged champion schoolgirl hurdler once, she doesn’t know her Ironman nephew, two generations younger than her in years, doesn’t know much anymore, her ghosts of memory adrift.
She lies curled in a ward named for a lovely small river burbling below their long-ago home. A steep grassy slope led to where her boys would romp in the water innocent of drama ahead. I try feeding her the meal she would be responsible for if time-travel transported us back to when she directed this hospital’s kitchen, but, coughing in pneumonia’s clutches, she sags back into her pillow, irritated by the oxygen feed, a pterodactyl fossil the weight of a child. I realise the last time I visited her in hospital was after the birth of the saddened middle-aged guy standing alongside me. Fourteen then, a proud uncle, I needed positives when the colour of my life was grey.
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Always something; the family edition #025 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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