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Dec 29, 2023 | 
trippleeffect.substack.com | Arjan Tupan |Jonathan Potter |Kristen Lenea Ryberg |Sherman Alexie
Fountain topendeavours to catch raysof early morning sun falling throughthe now leafless branchesof park trees. Early in the morning, or maybe now the days are shorter not so early, the fountain in our park is already spewing water into the air like a whale. On the days the sun is already out, but still low above the low skyline of our town, the top of the fountains tries to mimic diamonds by catching the early morning sunshine.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
trippleeffect.substack.com | Arjan Tupan
A Fibonacci sequence in nature, as imagined by AI using Night Café StudioShapes,forms,evokeemotions. That's this poet's aim. And sometimes I even succeed. I’ve been playing with forms again lately. Not those shapes you give small children so they can start developing their scientific muscles at a young age, but poetic forms. I usually write poems in the tritriplicata form, a form I created myself.
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
trippleeffect.substack.com | Arjan Tupan
Fresh fallenleaves, helped by mushrooms, starttheir decaying as autumn takes hold;in their midst, seeds start togerminate. Autumn is known as the beginning of the end. In our linear way of looking at life, autumn is the season when we start to lose our leaves, and our days are getting shorter. Sure, there are beautiful colours shining bright on the ever fewer days the sun comes out to play, but we all know we are preparing for the Big Sleep. It never really felt right.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
trippleeffect.substack.com | Arjan Tupan |Anthony Tao |A. Christine Myers
Fall yellowsand autumn reds gentlydance outside to his final playlistand life stories. Then, ourlives resume. Earlier this week, I attended the funeral of my cousin. Even though I had a connection with him, we never really had much contact. Still, I wanted to be there. Also because my mother is the eldest still alive from that side of the family, and I was the only option she had to get her to the location that was quite remote and almost literally in the middle of nowhere.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
trippleeffect.substack.com | Arjan Tupan
Just a pieceof marble and some paint. Nothing of the great writer is here. Still, I cycled here. Tobe inspired? A while ago, I visited the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. A lot of famous people, among them many artists, have their final resting place there. But when you go there, you won’t meet them. They are dead. They are not there. Just there graves, and some fans. Sometimes. Still, there’s something there. In The Hague, there’s a cemetery that some refer to as the Père Lachaise of The Netherlands.
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Aug 18, 2023 | 
trippleeffect.substack.com | Arjan Tupan |Anthony Tao
You can't missthese purple flowers onAlpine mountain sides, where the tree lineis so much closer thansea level. Growing up below sea level, the tree line - that demarcation of altitude where trees can no longer grow - was a mystical thing to me. I understood the concept, but it was hard to imagine how it looked. Since then, I’ve visited the mountains several times and even walked around that tree-line-altitude.
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Aug 4, 2023 | 
trippleeffect.substack.com | Arjan Tupan |A. Christine Myers
Stacking stones. Admittedly, I’m not super good at it. But somehow, I always like to make a little tower. It’s a fun thing to do. But stones also can have meaning. Of course there is the geological significance of them: they can tell the history of our planet. But stones also are sometimes used to remember those who are no longer with us. You can see that, for example, with breath-taking, powerful silence, in Auschwitz. But also in many other places. When I stack a few rocks, it’s a bit of everything.
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Jul 21, 2023 | 
trippleeffect.substack.com | Arjan Tupan
We were on the beach the other day. Early evening, ice creams in our hands. Until a seagull swept down and snatched my daughter’s ice cream right out of her little hand. Even biting her finger. It was a shock. It was a drama. It was a bit scary, too. Fortunately, my son and I managed to help my daughter recover from the shock, the sadness of losing a big part of her ice cream and the pain in her finger. She’s strong.
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Jul 7, 2023 | 
trippleeffect.substack.com | Arjan Tupan |Jason McBride
For a long time, I wanted to write a book. A novel, to be precise. Like the great writers I admired so much, and whose books I loved reading. I made several attempts, but never got much further than a couple of pages. Often not even enough for one chapter. It was frustrating in a way. Until I had a blog on which I sometimes also posted a poem. One of these poems received a kind and encouraging piece of feedback, which inspired me to reevaluate my book dream.
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May 12, 2023 | 
trippleeffect.substack.com | Arjan Tupan
Image generated using the SDXL Beta model on NightCafé Studio. Even thoughI don't mind getting myfeet wet, I avoid placing them inthe puddles on the routeI'm running. Once I’m on a roll, say after the first 2K of a good run, I hardly notice the rain if I’m running in wet weather. It’s when I am in the flow, warmed up, and just running.
