H e t e r o t o p ia

"Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin."
-- Bruce Chatwin, What Am I Doing Here? #BookSky #Traveling

Followed the Limpopo River out to the Indian Ocean for a weekend retreat, in Xai-Xai, Mocambique. It's been hot and I need some rest and wash my clothes.

2025: The year in pictures This year the world witnessed a relentless news cycle full of compelling and jarring images. Look back at the photos that defined 2025.

#Photography 2025
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YouTube video by Wookyung Kim Marcin Wasilewski Trio: The first touch

Had a chance to listen to #Music and this was the first that came up to my mind. Sorry for being slow to post, but I'm very busy and it's not easy to connect here in the savanna and the bush, in southern Africa.
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The sounds of the night in the bush. Take care.

#Traveling Take care.

#Photography Tony Ray-Jones (c. 1968), Weymouth, Dorset, England, UK.

#Photography Christer Strömholm, Paris.

#Words Saudade

Apollo's bold, unruly and controversial successor A visual guide to the audacious moon-landing mission design that put SpaceX and NASA in the hot seat — and has experts worried the US could lose the new moon race.

A Visual Guide.
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Very disturbing documentary. With very patriotic people with not much in the upper story. What we could expect from the US. The US army would last 2 days against an enemy who's prepared to sacrifice hundreds of thousands.

You are allowed to elaborate.

"Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain."
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

Nobel Prize in Literature 1982 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1982 was awarded to Gabriel García Márquez "for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imaginat...

(“The solitude of Latin America”)
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"Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of imagination. For our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable."
— Gabriel García Márquez (Nobel speech 1982)

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are going.
― Lao Tzu

Vincent Van Gogh realising his impact on Art and Culture.
#TV Doctor Who, Series 5 Episode 10, Vincent and the Doctor.
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I have a similar experience when it comes to Jung. For me, also, it was life changing in a way. You can't undo that kind of revelation. Thank You.

The Book of Life.
#Photography Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison

“The whole world is now one vast uncontrolled experiment - the way it always was, Crake would have said - and the doctrine of unintended consequences is in full spate.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
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“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”
― Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#StreetPhotography Michael Wolf, from his series "Tokyo Compression" (candid photos in Tokyo’s underground system).
RIP Michael Wolf. May you rest in perfection.