For me sad
a day to remember some
special ones.
(Note: Thanksgiving will really never be the same for without my mom or dad. Alone in a crowd.)
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Mark Graham
I am a person who really likes to read and write and to share what I learned with all my education. My page will mainly be book reviews and critiques of old and new books that I have read and will read. There will also be other bits, too.
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What a Thanksgiving?
Like a discarded fallen old leaf for this is how I feel most of time on this holiday known as Thanksgiving. No one really says "Happy Thanksgiving" to me. I sit and listen, but I have nothing to add to anyone conversation for they all have memories that I do not have. They go out and I join, but they always head back into the house. I really do not fit in down here. I feel alone in a crowd of family. I would rather be totally alone that alone in a crowd. Alone in a crowd is just horrible.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
Standing While Falling
Quotation from Friedrich Nietzsche "He who wrestles long with monsters should beware lest he himself become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. Man is not destroyed by suffering, but by the meaning he makes of it."
By LUCCIAN LAYTH12 days ago in Critique
Homo Narrans Vs. Phono Sapiens
Peter Ayolov, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” Abstract This article examines the contemporary shift from storytelling as a shared, dialogical practice to storyselling as a performative, market-oriented mode of self-presentation. Drawing on Byung-Chul Han’s book The Crisis of Narration, the analysis argues that narration has lost its primary social function: the creation of a common symbolic world sustained through reciprocal exchange. Traditional storytelling depended on at least two participants and unfolded as a movement back and forth, producing memory, cohesion, and future-oriented meaning. In contrast, storyselling treats narrative as a one-directional instrument for selling identity, success, or visibility, reducing listeners to passive consumers. The article situates this shift within broader transformations of digital capitalism, self-optimisation culture, and communication coaching, showing how conversational depth is replaced by predictable, strategic self-branding. The loss of genuine conversation is presented not as a stylistic problem but as a structural erosion of social bonds and shared meaning.
By Peter Ayolova day ago in Critique
Comments (4)
It's difficult at times to be optimistic or thankful when you miss loved ones so much. Your parents sound as though they were top notch in all ways. Sending a big hug.
I'm so sorry 🥺 Sending you lots of love and hugs ❤️
Awww, so true.
Awe so cute I love this