Category Archives: Reflections

June 17, 2018 · 11:00 am

Retiring from Academia

My Dear Friends -Readers, Commentators and Silent Followers Alike:

I now stand before another thrilling door of opportunities as I am retiring from academia, having had the amazing fortune to teach my beloved college students for over forty years. The date of my formal retirement from my faculty position at The Pennsylvania State University is June 30th, 2018. My 15+ years of association with this nationally and internationally noted university has been a most memorable and rewarding experience throughout my career’s journey. I shall miss the students whom I have encountered and come to love in my teaching-learning dynamics semester after semester over my teaching tenure. While this fact will remain in my heart and mind for the remaining of my days (assuming that Alzheimer’s will not knock on the door to keep me as a companion), I am in my highest eagerness looking forward to my new path where I will assume on a full-time basis the role of a writer, translator, languages- and literature-consultant, an editor and a lecturer on a global platform.

I will soon be back with my regular blog posts; that is, with (hopefully more of) my own work as far as creative writing, for which my hunger and thirst have already grown beyond my 24-hours-boundary for quite a while. In the meantime, my best wishes are on their way to each of you and yours.

hülya
Director of Editing Services, Inner Child Press International
Literary Translator, English-German-Turkish
Ghostwriter
(814) 769-0801

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June 10, 2018 · 11:00 am

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“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” ~ Jack Canfield

Jack Canfield

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June 3, 2018 · 11:00 am

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“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”
~ Anais Nin

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May 27, 2018 · 11:00 am

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“It is precisely because impermanent, Joseph-G-2013
conditioned phenomena are unsatisfying
that we are motivated to awaken.
Seeing these characteristics clearly
becomes the cause of and
condition for liberation.”

Joseph Goldstein

Related Reading: “The End of Suffering”

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May 20, 2018 · 11:00 am

*”instead of . . .”

i surprised him

the second he spotted me behind his mommy
his little darling body became a dance all by itself
his forever-smiling face made room for giggles
many many giggles

then joyous ‘come on, grandma!’s

hand in hand
eyes locked on mine
my little enormous sunshine!

‘you come to anne car’
ending in 1/3 of a question mark
with my yes already housed in his brightly shining heart

leaving his pre-school . . .
amid the two grown women’s chatter
as untainted as any voice can ever be:
“I love you, grandma!”

i love him so
his little sister too
that each of my exchanges with them
takes my breath away

and i think . . .
together we all get to breathe again
laughing
crying
eating
drinking
sleeping
celebrating
loving and being loved again

yet on the many other ends of our world
because of a few power-fed sick minds
and their equally loveless bribe-filled grinds
children die
die die die

and die again

*This poem was posted here once before. When I recently got to see my grandson and my granddaughter after a long period of time had passed, I could not help myself but re-visit that most memorable day.

From my newest book of poetry:
Aflame. Memoirs in Verse. Inner Child Press (August 2, 2017)
Available at inner child press
Also available at inner child press are the following:
Trance (December 12, 2013), my tri-lingual poetry book with my own translations between English, German and Turkish, and
An Aegean Breeze of Peace, a book of poetry that I have co-authored with
Demetrios Trifiatis (October 12, 2015)

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May 13, 2018 · 11:00 am

Some Good Happens After All . . .

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May 6, 2018 · 11:00 am

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“Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem. By flowing with life I mean acceptance – letting come what comes and go what goes. Desire not, fear not, observe the actual, for you are not what happens, you are to whom it happens. Ultimately even the observer you are not. You are the ultimate potentiality of which the all-embracing consciousness is the manifestation and expression.” ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

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May 2, 2018 · 11:00 am

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“The unsaid, for me,
exerts great power.” ~ Louise Glück

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April 25, 2018 · 11:31 am

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“It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.“

Rabindranath Tagore

I cannot help but agree . . .

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April 15, 2018 · 11:00 am

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“Intrinsically, we are perfect in being as we are. We are enlightened. But until we really understand this, we will do deluded things.” ~ Charlotte Joko Beck

Charlotte Joko Beck

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