by Danny Ballan | Feb 24, 2016 | Archive
Inspired by Rene Magritte’s surrealism, we have the opportunity with this great painting to think about the realism behind it. How many men kiss women dreaming of kissing someone else, and vice versa? What are the minimum standards of a loveable person these days? How...
by Danny Ballan | Feb 23, 2016 | Archive
Everybody feels the same all around wherever you go, whoever you see, whichever occasion it may be, they have the same feeling all the time: They feel underpaid, underrated, and underestimated. Well, I just feel the same most of the time. Working for some people who...
by Danny Ballan | Feb 22, 2016 | Archive
“Hope” is the thing with feathers—That perches in the soul—And sings the tune without the words—And never stops—at all—And sweetest—in the Gale—is heard—And sore must be the storm—That could abash the little BirdThat kept so many warm—I’ve heard it in the hilliest...
by Danny Ballan | Feb 22, 2016 | Archive
There must have been a thousand ways in front of me when I finally chose one. Not saying that I knew them all, or that all were available, but I took the one and I marched along. Walking a little, singing a little, feeling tired a little, even frustrated sometimes,...
by Danny Ballan | Feb 20, 2016 | Archive
I have been a human for quite a long time now, and I have read and heard all the stories of heroes and cowards, of kings and beggars, of leaders and soldiers and it shocked me to figure out that in all those stories I heard and read, the heroes die and the cowards...
by Danny Ballan | Feb 18, 2016 | Archive
Roman Charity is the exemplary story of a woman, Pero, who secretly breastfeeds her father, Cimon after he is incarcerated and sentenced to death by starvation. She is found out by a jailer, but her act of selflessness impresses officials and wins her father’s...
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