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One Year After

December 19, 2022December 19, 2022 Carl Kruse

I had to kill myself to be born again. Cabo da Roca, the western point of Europe. On 20th September 2021, I took off with three bags and fled Italy. […]

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Being Lonely

November 24, 2021November 24, 2021 Carl Kruse

by Hazel Anna Rogers I have felt very alone of late. These years have been tumultuous — both personally and on a global scale — and there is something unsettling […]

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The Case for Dreams

June 11, 2021October 25, 2021 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt During his imprisonment, Socrates supposedly composed some lyrics, something he had never bothered himself with before. Puzzled by this behavior, his friend Cebes asked him on the […]

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Murakami’s Norwegian Wood: Death, Winter, and Love

April 3, 2021April 21, 2022 Carl Kruse

by Hazel Anna Rogers I first read Haruki Murakami’s ‘Norwegian Wood’ when I was 17, in my first relationship. As it happened, it was my first foray into Japanese literature, […]

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On the Wonders of Classical Music

February 9, 2021May 7, 2022 Carl Kruse

by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog I have always listened to classical music, though perhaps that’s rather too vague a term for all of the wonderful varieties […]

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The Art of Journaling

December 22, 2020May 7, 2022 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog There can be a stifling freedom around a blank page, and that is all a journal is; a collection of blank pages. […]

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Reveries of Starvation – Proust, Melville & Donuts

December 17, 2020May 7, 2022 Carl Kruse

by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog I spent a large part of my teenage to early adult life starving myself, to various degrees. My memory around these […]

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Neurosis in Santorini

October 25, 2020October 25, 2020 Carl Kruse

by Hazel Anna RodgersI think in the past I had quite a stressed personality, quite erratic and meticulous without much room for spontaneity within my rigid regime. I still enjoy […]

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Look to the Skies – The Enduring Connection of Bird to Human

September 21, 2020October 25, 2020 Carl Kruse

by Hazel Anna Rogers When I was younger, my family and I would drive around eighteen hours every summer to the south of France to meet with my mother’s family. […]

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