Marja Kooreman | Journalist & Correspondent
also known as Sitara Morgenster | Using my head to write from the heart
Marja Kooreman | Journalist & Correspondent
also known as Sitara Morgenster | Using my head to write from the heart
The brave… The fallen… More like the duped and the manipulated, and perhaps the innocent and the naive. Yes, my heart goes out to all men and women that were (or are) forced to do the most unnatural thing (and go fight and kill each other, and be killed, or at best serve that machine’s …
There is a delightful mosaic scene in the biopic “Pollock” (2000), starring Ed Harris as the painter, and Marcia Gay Harnden (who received an Oscar for this role) playing his wife Lee Krasner. At just over an hour and 4 minutes, Krasner is seen creating a mosaic table. Four minutes later it resurfaces – only …
I watch the patrons strolling up and down the Paraparaumu Beach Market on a chilly spring Saturday morning. Tourists, locals, visitors from nearby towns, with or without dogs, partners, children; throngs of people moving past my stall, toward my stall, away from my stall. Most of them are after vegetables, seedlings and food. Maybe also …
Did you hang out with your precious attention today? Were you mostly mindful or absent-minded? The answer is probably: “both!” Harvard Research shows that our mind wanders, on average, 47% of the time: nearly half our lives! We spend that time thinking of what isn’t going on or propelling ourselves into the future. Or ruminating …