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Born Karol Józef Wojtyla on May 18, 1920, in Wadowice, Poland.

If you love, don´t betray,
If you hate, don´t obey,
If none of this is true, remember that my words are uttering in vain.
Why do we remember each other?
Because pain is like an incarcerated flower.
Why do we make love?
Because,
besides us,
and far away from our shadows,
in a world of lunatics that deeply impair the pictures entrenched in our brains,
madness is hunting,
our soul made of steel.

INTRODUCTORY EXPLANATION: the following article represents a modern version of the traditional epic poems that were characteristic for the Serbian poetry during the Middle Ages. These poems were written decasyllabic. The original (serbian) version is here http://zokster.net/drupal/node/3899

THE BIG SUFFERING OF BORIS “THE BLESSED”

Oh my god, miracle was huge,
when it ruffled all over Serbia
almost country Serbia capsized,
especially in the Belgrade-City:
a hundred and thirty thousands euros
for a hundred serbian troubadours,

Karl and Dorsey Gude of East Lansing, Mich., can remember simpler mornings, not too long ago. They sat together and chatted as they ate breakfast. They read the newspaper and competed only with the television for the attention of their two teenage sons.

I had completely lost touch with reality, my own being was deprived of God and kindness.

I couldn´t cope with my phantoms, and as such, my sense of omnipotence was crumbling.

After my most sensitive, and beloved relationships were blocked, like a knife, my body and soul were recognized no more.

Paintings were killed, and Kings left down to nothing else but letters in an empty box.

My relationship with my phantoms had become more subtle and friendly.

It is 400 years since Galileo Galilei demonstrated his telescope, which would lead him to make new astronomical observations

Steve McKenna explores the rejuvenated tourist gems of a region once tortured by conflict.

Before it was brutally torn apart by a series of ethnic conflicts in the 1990s, the region formerly known as Yugoslavia had a fair claim to being, pound for pound, Europe's most beguiling country.

Mountains and beaches, islands and national parks, cultured cities and absorbing history; it had just about everything you'd want from a travel destination.

Strong Meteor Shower Expected Tonight

The annual Perseid meteor shower is expected to put on a good show this week for those willing to get up in the wee hours of the morning and wait patiently for the shooting stars.

Regina Holliday will always remember the day the Senate took up health-care reform seven weeks ago. It was the day her husband died.

Forget Romeo and Juliet. Forget Paris. Forget "When Harry Met Sally". There is a new tale out since Kelly met Kelly:

People in Peru protest against President Alan Garcia

Dozens of people are missing feared dead in northern Peru after some of the country's worst violence for 10 years.

At least 30 indigenous protesters and 24 police officers are reported to have been killed in two days of clashes.

Local people say a military curfew is preventing them from hunting for those still unaccounted for. Witnesses report seeing bodies dumped in a river.

President Alan Garcia has accused the protesters of "barbarity" and said "foreign forces" were also involved.

Diary (blog) entry, May 25, 2008

Warning: There is a graphic image included in this post. I do not plan to apologize for it. Life is graphic, and so is the truth. For those who can not tolerate it, most I could do it to make it into a thumbnail, so that it does not have to be seen in full size and nature. The facts, the reality of such images are too easily forgotten and neglected if not occasionally seen and grasped 'as is'. Because this could have been you and your child.

This is the week of the Earth Day, April 22 (although United Nations adopted the day of March Equinox as the Earth Day since 1969).