Lana V Lynx
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Avid reader and occasional writer of satire and short fiction. For my own sanity and security, I write under a pen name. My books: Moscow Calling - 2017 and President & Psychiatrist
@lanalynx.bsky.social
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Meaning of Life
As someone who spent most of her life in higher education (both as a student and a teacher) and experienced both totalitarian and democratic systems of state rule, I had been thinking about the meaning of life a lot, asking myself big questions like, "Why am I here? Why are all other people here? Is there any sense in all of this, in our time on the planet Earth?" all my life, starting as a child born during the Cold War.
By Lana V Lynx3 years ago in Humans
Improbable Love
He: A brilliant computer and network hardware engineer in his early 50s, a widower who recently lost his wife to cancer. Neither tall nor short, but athletically built and active in sports. Not classically handsome, but charming with his dark brown eyes, chiseled jaw, sensual lips, and thick wavy salt-and-pepper hair.
By Lana V Lynx3 years ago in Fiction
Rediscovered Bach for the New Year and New Humanity
If you know anything about classical music, you must have heard of and listened to the Well-Tempered Clavier - two sets (Volume 1 and 2) of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys for keyboard by Johann Sebastian Bach. The collection is generally regarded as one of the most fundamental and important works in the history of European classical music.
By Lana V Lynx3 years ago in Beat
Violent Night
I cannot even tell you how much I loved the movie! I loved it so much that I watched it twice: First by myself, and with my son for the second time. We both are big movie buffs and it took me a lot of effort not to spoil the movie for my son by answering his rhetorical questions during the movie.
By Lana V Lynx3 years ago in Geeks
Harry Porter Trains Ukrainian Soldiers
You can't make this up. No one can, even those of us who write satire and dystopian fiction. This exchange reportedly happened on one of the Russian media channels where they allow viewers to call in with their opinions. I am going to translate it from Russian, verbatim.
By Lana V Lynx3 years ago in Geeks
Twitter, Musk, and Trump. Top Story - November 2022.
I was inspired by the High-Ku challenge to write about one of the most important developments in the social media world, i.e. Musk's takeover of Twitter and his desperate attempts to attract more eyeballs to the platform and stop exodus of advertisers and reputable news organizations. So here are my haiku verses on Twitter's demise and impending death:
By Lana V Lynx3 years ago in Poets
Khan Tengri
This high-ku is devoted to Mount Khan Tengri, whose ancient Turkic name denotes nature's sacredness and literally means "King Heaven" in Kazakh and Kyrgyz and "King Sky" in Mongolian. A jewel of the Tien Shen mountain range, second only to the Victory Peak, it stands at five meters short of 7,000 (almost 23,000 feet) on the tripoint of three countries: Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and China. Notoriously hard to scale, Khan Tengri is one of the deadliest mountains in the world. It also has a sacred meaning for local cultures that believe the mountain only allows those people close to it or onto it who have righteous strength, pure soul, and good heart.
By Lana V Lynx3 years ago in Poets
