Learn to say no (and hear no) with less guilt and hurt, and more connection

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Last week, while binge watching the last season of Breaking Bad, I heard a song I’d never heard that made my heart skip a beat and then pick up again more insistently. The music choices in Breaking Bad don’t disappoint. First of all, rather than using music to cue the… [Continue Reading]

Breaking Bad + Homesick = Another Neruda Translation

Minding my life, Poetry, Translations

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Hide ‘n’ Seek. Remember the wordless buzz with which you would scatter about while someone counted to twelve, or to twenty, or to whatever number you and your friends would have determined with so much ease, using that superpower you had (still do! maybe just dormant) which instantly took whatever… [Continue Reading]

Hide ‘n’ Seek! (Also, counting twelve and keeping quiet with Pablo Neruda)

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(Translation (c) Heidi Fischbach. “Demasiados Nombres” is the Spanish, original title) Monday tangles up with Tuesday and a week with the whole year. Time cannot be cut with your weary scissors, all the names of the days are washed away by the night. No one can be called Pedro, no one… [Continue Reading]

Too Many Names (by Pablo Neruda)

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(Translation (c) Heidi Fischbach. Read Neruda’s original “Pido Silencio” here Now if you’d leave me in peace.Now if you’d get on without me. I am going to close my eyes And I only want five things,five favorite roots. The first is love without end. The second is to see autumn.I… [Continue Reading]

I ask for silence (Pablo Neruda)

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