Hand Grenade

"There is a boy in my building who earned himself the nickname Hand Grenade, just because he failed to specify correctly the calibre of projectile that hit the back yard five minutes earlier. he said it was a hand grenade, and it was, in fact, an 85-milimetre mortar round. That's how nicknames are earned in…

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Confrontation

"-Well, the city is not badly damaged as I thought it would be. So, they will never understand this. Is it worth explaining that there is no room for disappointment, that there really have been dreadful days, horrible weeks, disastrous months, and hopeless winters? if you start explaining, you will end up arguing. And then…

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Mahatma Gandhi said that seven things will destroy us: Wealth Without Work Pleasure Without Conscience Knowledge Without Character Commerce (Business) Without Morality (Ethics) Science Without Humanity Religion Without Sacrifice Politics Without Principle

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Taslihan…miris djetinjstva

Mozda za lektiru u Osnovne skole u Sarajevu uvesti predivnu knjigu: Jan Beran “Price iz Taslihana” #mojedjetinjstvo #dugirazgovorisbratom U dnu starog vratničkog groblja stoji neugledan i nakrivljen, nišan na kome ni najbolji poznavalac arapskog pisma ne može više da pročita ime onoga koji je pod njim pokopan. I tu, u hladu razgranate drače, počiva čovjek…

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Average Thursday

Half day work: Preparing project proposal for workshop grants. Helping with California retreat in September for 12 Humphrey Fellows from 12 different countries, which includes chasing tickets, hotels and waiting for answers from Disneyland program managers. Helping in gathering info needed for potential workshop with Albania journalists in the USA in January. Working on icebreaker…

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Life

Playboy: If life is so purposeless, do you feel its worth living? Kubrick: Yes, for those who manage somehow to cope with our mortality. The very meaninglessness of life forces a man to create his own meaning. Children, of course, begin life with an untarnished sense of wonder, a capacity to experience total joy at…

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Pitam se?

Citam ponovno Hemonovu „Knjigu moji zivota“ i tako odlutam ponekad u dubine svojih misli. I on, poputi Zlaje Arslanagica u knjizi „Mozda ce sutra biti suncan dan“ objasnjava da supred sami rat bili u najboljim godinama svog zivota, te kako su imali izuzetno bogat drustveni zivot u tadasnjem Sarajevu. Obojica opisuju dane pred rat, apokalipticne,…

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