The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Sunday October 9th, 2022 – World Post Day
World Post Day is celebrated each year on 9 October, the anniversary of the establishment of the Universal Postal Union in 1874 in the Swiss Capital, Bern. It was declared World Post Day by the UPU Congress held in Tokyo, Japan in 1969. Since then, countries across the world participate annually in the celebrations. The Posts in many countries use the event to introduce or promote new postal products and services.
Boarding school in Swaziland and falling in love with my English teacher #ShortStory #Fiction by Abigail George
Welcome to the present day. I am an adolescent girl. To keep my mind away from you, teacher, to stop it from enthralling me, to keep the knowledge of you clean, pure I am a collection of lost and found, an uneducated volcano, impatient smoke and the voice of denial. I have become a series of pounding satellites in orbit, the reminder of skinned knees from meeting the pavement, scary broadcasts on the evening news with the words coming out effortlessly from research. That is where I’m coming from, an illuminist. Fear from childhood gone. Fear from a hobo’s eye. Troops in hardship just an imprint burned on my brain. My bedroom has become my throne room. Here I have turned hours into a spotlight on loves, death, eternity, daughters and mothers.
Alluring lands of magic and wonder, the enduring secrets of my heart have become my playmates. When I was child with growing pains in my mother’s house, enchantment was internal in dreams and journeys like water in wild places but after that season passed, that phase of my life, with the elegant curve of the winter sun in the sky, water became more fluid in streams and rivers and for the passage of time that I have known you, I know that there will come a day, a time of night when it will stop flowing from memory. Gravity was the only thing holding you and when the world was a thick, white blanket of snowy mist you kept me company on those walks to and from school even though you did not walk beside me.
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Translations from the Cinema – Cascando, the Documentary #poem by Dr. Lawrence Nannery
“The camera eye, imitating nature, is cruel in its concern.
This time, it was the airship Hindenburg on its last visit to the States.
As it docks a wind kicks up, and the tethers drag the sailors up.
Two held on, and it means their death.
They are swept upwards, up and suddenly they are hundreds of feet high, and thus doomed.”
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Richard St. Barbe Baker: The Life of the Forests by Rene Wadlow
Today, there is a growing awareness that cooperation is required to protect and manage integrated ecosystems which cross national frontiers. This is particularly important in the case of forest management. Trans-frontier conservation cooperation, in which two or more States cooperate in the management and the conservation of forests has increased a good deal in recent years.
Much of this effort is due to the work of Richard St. Barbe Baker whose birth anniversary we note on 9 October. From the late 1920s to the early 1980s, Richard St. Barbe Baker traveled the globe, warning of the dangers of forest destruction, forest clear-cutting, and the greedy waste of natural resources.
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Ghostin’ #47 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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