Some prose and Skywatch Friday

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It's been a while (nine years?) and I miss the Skywatch community. In the meantime I started weekly posting a short story or a poem. "So why not do both?" I asked myself. And here I am.

How 're all you lovelies doing in your parts of the world?

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Here are a few shots that my cameraphone took, this past week in my hometown of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. With a little bit of help from me and the models:

Coming home from sewing lesson, I passed Bilderdijkkade, crossing Kinkerstraat

A mural next to Muiderpoort trainstation:

It looked like it would start raining soon, so I was glad to be nearly home. The trained eye could just see the entrance to the appartment of my next door neighbours. Who probably also got woken up by a flash of light and a loud bang that coming night: thunderbolts and lightning! Very, very frightnening...

I added a slight HDR-filter for added dramatic effect:

Have always been intrigued by the architecture of this appartment building in Amsterdam-West. Very clever, that small triangle sticking out; barely enough to put down a plant pot in that space but you can charge the buyers a couple of thousand euros for that square metre.

After all that (and my ADHD brain wants to write a lot more so you're lucky therapy tought me to hold back. Sometimes), it's time for some homemade poetry:

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To End (a #poem)

The world could have ended 

and they would not have known.

Closed off from the outside world,

for days now they were lost 

in each other's eyes
and limbs

Searching for answers

is more fun together

because you can hope

not to find them

unless you want 

the journey

(and with that the world)

to end

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Want to read (more of) my short stories? My author page: Terrence Weijnschenk at Amazon

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Pureblood

In the Harry Potter books there are wizards who hate Muggles and call themselves Purebloods. In our world there are idiots who hate Jews, Arabs, Asian and African people and call themselves Purebloods.

Most racists nowadays are also anti-vax so they claim 'Pureblood' is by no means racist but simply means they haven't been vaccinated against a deadly virus.

A common misconception is that only Caucasian (i.e. 'white') people can have racist tendencies and prejudices against people with a different colour skin.

Watch the series 'Roots' to understand why people with dark skin developed a hatred for people with light skin. LeVar Burton, the actor who portrayed the main character of Kunta Kinte, recently discovered he is not 'pureblood'. It was a shock for him to be confronted with the fact he was a bit racist himself with being proud of his 'all black' lineage.

I am of mixed blood myself: Indonesian, German and with touches of Chinese, Portuguese and Irish.

If you really are 'pureblood', you are rare because by far most people are not. What's your heritage? From how many different 'races' are you made up?

Some people deny (the history of) racism. But did you know 'the Irish' were once considered a race?

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Want to read (more of) my short stories? My author page: Terrence Weijnschenk at Amazon

A donation (click) is much appreciated:

In Facebook zijn niet alle plaatjes te zien (of te horen) en links in mijn artikelen niet aan te klikken. Klik daarom op de oorspronkelijke link. http://terrebel.blogspot.nl/ Veel leesplezier! O ja, fans kunnen mijn Fan pagina leuk vinden. https://www.facebook.com/TerrebelAuthortainer
Over links gesproken: ja, dat ben ik maar voor verdieping staat er ook een aantal in mijn stukjes. Heb daar wat moeite voor genomen dus stel het op prijs als u de moeite neemt er op te klikken om de betreffende artikelen, onderzoeken en filmpjes te bekijken.

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