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The incompletion of melancholy

I write about ‘my depression’. But why so possessive? Because, every person’s depression is unique to them.   Steve Latham   To appropriate Tolstoy’s observation about families (“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.’), we are happy in the same way; we are […]

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Ordinary heroism

 Maria Fouillette, daughter of a butcher in a French town close to the border with Switzerland, was the mother of two children. Her husband Roger became leader of an anti-Nazi resistance group until he was arrested in 1943.   Sean Sheehan   Roger was brought, shackled and bruised, to his […]

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Vietnam or the strategy to fight Covid

Eight months from the outset of the coronavirus and almost two months from a second wave, the statistics  in Vietnam now rank among the best in Asia and the world.   Alberto Salazar Gutiérrez   The World Health Organization (WHO), epidemiologists and specialized institutions all over the world have praised […]

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Art of the body

Mari Katayama, born in 1987 in Japan, is an artist of the body; her own to be exact. She celebrates the life of body and spirit in photographic self-portraits and the embroidering of objects that relate to her body.   Sean Sheehan   Exhibitions of her work have been seen […]