Author Archives: Alta

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: când muzica reușește să te găsească chiar și într-un muzeu de artă

Desigur că muzica mă însoțește pe tot parcursul vacanței și râd în mintea mea când realizez treaba asta. Ajung în Danemarca într-o zi de vineri, pentru ca de-acolo să plec în Suedia la un concert Coldplay. Un recital jazz de Ziua Franței, la Tivoli. The National într-o sală de muzeu.

Scotland’s attempt at ending period poverty. How it became the first country in the world to make all the menstrual products free for women

In 2022, Scotland became the first country in the world to make period products free for all women, after a bill was passed by the Parliament back in 2020. I find this law to be remarkable: not only because there are plenty of females who do not afford to buy menstrual products, but also because by talking about it, menstruation is no longer a topic that should only be discussed behind open doors, in whispers, and only between women.

Cum am aflat dintr-o catedrală anglicană că produsele de îngrijire menstruală sunt gratuite în Scoția

Știați că în Scoția produsele de îngrijire menstruală sunt gratuite? Ei bine, eu am aflat asta dintr-o biserică anglicană

Spune-mi ce cărți citeai în vacanța de vară, ca să-ți spun cine ești

Nu, nu este nimic rău în a împrumuta cărți de la alții, de la bibliotecă, dar uneori poate că vrei ceva care să fie doar al tău. Iată cum poți ajuta niște copii să citească romanele preferate în vacanța de vară

Notes on Prince Harry’s “Spare”

All the things he did, even enrolling in the British army, were nothing but cries for help. When you try and try and try to feel something, but all you feel, all you are, is nothingness, what can you do but something extreme? Is that something peculiar to Harry? I don’t think so.

The Pondering of Being

Then your lungs start to constrict. It’s like the air is on a strike and refuses to go down your throat. Your entire ribcage starts alerting the system that something might be wrong. A glitch. Perhaps it’s a false alarm this time. Perhaps a little sleep will reset you. Perhaps you will wake up brand new tomorrow.

“Aftersun”, a reflection (and a short poem)

Aftersun by the brilliant Charlotte Wells is a splendid yet very painful movie to watch, especially if you’ve been dealing with depression yourself. A lesson in storytelling, with characters which, to me, were very evocative of Murakami’s.

“Banshees of Inisherin”. On grief of being ghosted by your closest friend

Have you ever lost a friend and wondered for years what happened for them to suddenly remove you from their lives? Have you ever replied the last conversations in your mind, trying to find traces of something that might have been wrong, looking for signals that you might have missed or completely refused to see? Because I did. I did and felt all of the above. And it left emptier with each new person who vanished from my life.