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The Lessons That Starlings Can Teach Us

In a recent short film, starlings help a lonely elderly man find his way back to the experience of the world around. It is silence that opens the short film Starlings, directed by Simon Allen. But despite the dullness of muffled noises suffocated in the background, it speaks loudly, in a captivating fashion. And it […]

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The ‘other’ side of dawn London – photo story

An old man who persists in feeding pigeons in Elephant & Castle once said to me: “London is big, so big that you are invisible.”  In my own case, it’s my second year in London. As an extremely introverted foreigner, any slight sign of unwelcome sends me scurrying back into my shell and consoling myself […]