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27 Sixth sense • ANTONIA CASE

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Writers

Manifesto • What is a ‘good life’? What makes a life worth living?

How to choose your life

A SHORT HISTORY OF ROMANIA

YOUR BRAIN’S ORATOR • Perhaps unbeknownst to you, your left brain is responsible for your chatting thoughts, your opinions, interpretation of events, and even your identity. But can it be trusted?

Growing wisdom

A Romanian dance • When Romanian photographer Kylli Sparre began creating her surreal worlds she rekindled her love of dance, proving that old passions don’t die.

Yesterday’s gone, and today we start afresh • Mindfulness meditation has been a mental health life saver for me.

Living with our dreams • Anxious types are those especially prone to pushing ahead.

PLEASE DO NOT DISTURB • Solitary individuals have long been seen as outliers: misanthropic, mad, bad or sad.

Words apart • For Romanian princess Marthe Bibesco, storytelling was her lifeline, even in the most desperate of times.

Rural tales • Romanian photographer Felicia Simion turns ordinary moments into imaginary tales.

Emilia Dobrin • Emilia Dobrin is an actress in Bucharest who has lived through communism, the Revolution, and Romania’s turbulent aftermath.

Alina Enache • Alina Enache is a sales manager who lives with her daughter and husband in an apartment in Bucharest.

Raluca Baran-Candrea • Raluca Baran-Candrea and her husband suddenly altered their life direction, and haven’t looked back.

A week of enchantment • The Feeric Fashion Week, the largest Fashion Week in the Balkans, has drawn the attention of international designers since its inception 13 years ago.

STEFAN CALTIA • Romanian artist Stefan Caltia keeps childhood alive in his magical dreamscapes.

Community WOMANKIND’S New Year’s resolution challenge • Womankind readers were set on a challenge to accomplish at least one of their New Year’s resolutions for three days.

Inspiration

Existential therapy • Existentialist philosophers remind us that it’s sadness, weakness, and misery that make us wholly human.

Bram Stoker, the Count, and Transylvanian legend • Novelist Bram Stoker dreamed up Dracula’s Castle, an edifice perched high on a rock, when he saw an illustration of just such a castle in Transylvania.

WOMANKIND

BIRD SPOTTING • Birding in the Danube Delta is a year-long spectacle, a favourite for bird watchers.

The generation of lost children • Communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu ruled Romania from 1965 until he was put to death by firing squad on Christmas Day in 1989.

OUT OF CONTEXT • Romanian artist Felicia Simion explores what home means to us in the modern age.

Books

Documentaries

Harker’s journal