Can’t tell the forest from the trees?
Lost in the woods are we?
Where is the truth?
Is it still Halloween?
If these signs don’t help, try: Tangier Gardens at https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv
WITCH? WAY?
Category Archives: journey
North Africa… 25 yrs ago
A curious geography, historically active with pirates, djinns and easy paths to drug use…
A strange place for an American college student to do his term abroad design study.
But Christopher Janus was fascinated with the Med, its sun, beaches and the Moroccan pedestrian towns and markets. CJ chose Tangier.
Read his flash fiction stories Thunderstruck, Steganophonic Streetlife and Cthulu 2000. Share his strange experiences in his series of 40 flash fiction stories entitled, Curious Tales.
Sample them for FREE at: https://amzn.to/41v2DNv
Either, or…
#CLOY
Released in 2019, the popular Netflix series “Crash Landing on You” is about a paragliding mishap dropping a South Korean heiress into North Korea — and into the life of a North Korean army officer, who decides he will help her.
This is a love story that overcomes the hardships of world politics–what is there not to like??
After incredible political complications, they separate due to those hardships; but they have already given their hearts to each other. And through the tricks of screen writing they reunite, in the tear-jerker of all time, on the dock in Iseltwald.
Meanwhile, the 400 residents of Iseltwald, a quiet Swiss village on Lake Brienz, rarely visited by tourists, have, most recently, seen hundreds of thousands of #CLOY visitors from Korea and East Asia. Quiet village? No longer.
What do you think about that?
Me? What do I think? Human emotions and their links to the landscape–mysterious, diaphanous, beautiful, arcane–they are the stuff of my books, like Tangier Gardens, link–https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv
Links:
The movie–https://www.netflix.com/ch-en/title/81159258
Swiss newspaper–https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/fans-of-netflix-series-disrupt-peaceful-swiss-village/47851764
“Magical Realism”
I could never get “magical realism” until I spent too many years around the Rub al Khali–the Empty Quarter.
Then I met CJ. He was obsessed. About? I couldn’t figure it out–magical realism or the Empty Quarter.
He wrote: “How to beat, tame, survive–the Empty Quarter–life–magical realism?
Only by imagination.”
CJ tried…and got beat.
It all started in Morocco, Tangier Gardens, then KSA, Egypt and finally, the Empty Quarter.
Take the First Step
…off the beaten track.
Sometimes it is necessary.
I know a guy, CJ, who almost died looking for that refreshing breath.
Tangier Gardens is his story: https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv
They Own You
Blanket a mountain? Cover sharp ridges and narrow gulleys?
Forests hide mysteries… even from a distance; but when you walk into them… they own you.
There are some things you can’t hide in a forest–CJ found that out in Tangier Gardens–read about it here: https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv
Hurt So Bad
Nature, the environment can hurt so bad—we feel it;
…but it can also inspire hope, recovery, improvement.
CJ learned this lesson in Morocco; read Tangier Gardens: buy it on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv
#Morocco #Suffering 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Suffering: the foundation of beauty
Two kinds of suffering:
1. The kind they want you to know; and the other,
2. The kind they won’t tell you.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
The MainStreamMedia tells you one story and Tangier Gardens tells the ‘rest of the story’.
Urban Virus
Coming to a village near you–SOON
Disrespect for public and private property.
Tell me what it is without saying it.
I hide from it by writing fiction, Tangier Gardens: https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv