The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Sunday October 16th, 2022 – World Food Day
World Food Day is an international day celebrated every year worldwide on October 16th to commemorate the date of the founding of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in 1945. The day is celebrated widely by many other organizations concerned with hunger and food security, including the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization and the International Fund for Agricultural Development.
Distance lends enchantment to the view #ShortStory #Fiction by Abigail George
Go fishing somewhere else this is my territory. In her eyes (the paper tiger empress) I can see the origins of smoke and mirrors and they feed the skeletons, the bears, beasts, the monsters, the life drawings of monkeys of my imagination. Under the bed, hiding in the closet. Driftwood. Beautiful sea-things rich with ancient life. Behold an artefact, a lost relic, an omen, the red lines of a signal, a warning of the odd immortal distance of growing older. Does she, will she remember the old me, mummy? The mad love of the beet king and queen sitting on their earth-thrones and how their progeny grew making the right life choices going to university, sitting in libraries studying, in pursuit of Ophelia, Julia, a second mother, a hairdresser.
I remember now nothing of the old me. Up in flames volcano people turned into stone. The London experiences of daddy, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes all led to depression. Why didn’t you love me mum? Squalor in circles of water my tangled obsession. The first beat is the heartbeat. Look at me. I am wearing my painted smile. It is not in me to talk to children. Perhaps infertility can do that to you. The sea is wild. It is my sea. The coast murmurs and then it roars. It is a dark green hole, filled with stupid schools of swimming fish a vortex in flux. Piggy lungs, piggy lair, piggy snout, piggy hands, piggy face, God’s stomach for the impressions of the candidates of the grotesque splinters off into asylum pieces at the expense of my soul. Stars are in majority.
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Urgent Love #poem by David Sparenberg
“Wayfarer, directionless … an automatic tread …
The middle of the middle of an impossible journey …
No land. No markers. Nothing but wanderings of the mind. …”
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World Food Day: A Call For Collective Action to Protect the Planet by Rene Wadlow
16 October is the U.N.-designated World Food Day. The date was chosen to mark the creaton of the Food and Agriculture Oranization in 1945 and located in Rome which had been the home of an agriculture institute related to the League of Nations. The Constitution of the Food and Agriculture Organization states as one of its aims “contributing towards an expanding world economy and ensuring humanity’s freedom from hunger.” Freedom from hunger is not simply a technical matter to be solved with better seeds, fertilisers, cultivation practices and marketing. To achieve freedom from hunger for mankind, there is a need to reduce poverty. The massive reduction of poverty must draw upon the ideas, skills and energies of whole societies and requires the cooperation of all countries.
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Worming #48 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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