Monthly Archives: January 2013

Forgotten Piece of Paper

Forgotten piece of paper, lying there Waiting to be found Waiting to be remembered World that time forgot, lying there Changes happening, changes stirring Never the same Mirin examined the piece of paper more closely. It was a faded, wrinkled picture, sitting towards the bottom of an old box. She hadn’t fully emptied the box […]

California: Making of an Environmentalist

In a way, California is still my homeland. I lived there for fourteen years, longer than anywhere else I’ve lived since. We fly in. The snow of the Sierras gives way to the goldish-brownish-greenish of January California fields. Against the fields and slopes are the deep blue-green of precious lakes. As we near San Francisco, […]

A Village of Tvarnaer’: Lenera Aza

Lenera stood up, her back aching from picking the last of the Tiflro, “blue buckwheat”, as it was later called by the foreign people. She looked around at the mists eerily lying on the meadows of grain, hiding between the ancient trees of the Great Forest which led to the Ktreya Lake, and, weirdest of […]