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shadowscape in Romanian

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shadowscape in Romanian

romanian flagMost of you know already that I’m Romanian, born and bred. I’ve started this blog in English for several reasons, having mostly to do with the fact that (a) I love this language and (b) I moved to the Netherlands a looong time ago.

For the past few weeks I’ve been toying around with the idea of starting a parallel blog in Romanian. There are things that I’d like to write about, like today, December 1st, which is the National Day of Romania, or politics, or stories of interest mainly to the Romanian Diaspora, and those are of interest only to Romanian readers, or simply come to me more natural in my native language. On the other hand, maintaining two blogs is a daunting task, especially considering how infrequently I update this one. Therefore I’ve chosen to make shadowscape a multilingual blog, which I’ve discovered to be possible on the WordPress platform, much to my delight. It needs just the right amount of tinkering to put a smile on my engineer alter-ego, and it’s the most simple and elegant solution I can think of right now.

So welcome to the new and improved shadowscape, in English and Romanian1. I’ve translated this post in Romanian too, if you speak the language or if you’re just curious how it looks like, you can click on the little flag icon at the top of the screen and see for yourself. There still some tweaking to be done to the template and widgets, all in my copious free time, so please bear with me. In the meantime, enjoy!

  1. Yes, I also speak Dutch. No, I won’t blog in Dutch; I believe two languages on shadowscape are enough. At least for now. [↩]
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The big move

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The big move

move “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”

– William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet”

A chapter of my life has closed this year, and loridani.net closes with it. But fear not; all things come to an end eventually, so that they can make room for new beginnings. Therefore I bid you welcome to shadowscape.eu, my brand new electronic home.

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The shadow of a doubt

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The shadow of a doubt

shadowHello there. Hi. Remember me?

It’s been a while.

When I’ve started this blog, a few years back, I didn’t really know what I wanted to write about. It was (mostly) a place for me to jolt down bits of ideas and stories that I find interesting and/or worthwhile. Its other (not so) obvious purpose was to provide me with a sandbox where I could mock about in the English language – which I’ve come to know and love almost as well as my native Romanian.

That was then.

I’ve changed, but then again, so do we all. I’ve started reading a few blogs, and then a few more, and found out what a blog really is. Entertainment. Humour. Opinionated editorialism. Gossip. Snark. A platform for one’s interests, or hobbies, or ideas. A chariot from which one could spear one’s enemies – metaphorically speaking, of course. A never-ending source of funny-faced cats speaking in cutely misspelled sentences. And oh, so much more, all fresh and new and updated regularly, in order to keep the reader’s interest alive.

And by those measures, this is not a blog.

I was away on holiday for the better part of last month, visiting relatives and friends back in my country of birth. And as chance would have it, I happened to run into Loridani version 1.0 – an old journal of mine, started way back in 1991 and rarely updated. Handwriting and language aside, it bore a striking similarity to my present style (and frequency) of writing. My younger self was writing down wild ideas and speculations about anything from religion to quantum physics, or any other topic that got me mesmerized at that time. Not for any honours or illusions of achievement, but merely to allow them to settle down and crystallize on page.

I am a firm believer in serendipity – I owe most of my present life to fortuitous coincidences, as friends would surely testify. And this particular bit of time travel couldn’t come at a better time. I’ve been pondering for a while now whether to keep on writing here on Loridani. Over the years this site has gathered an audience which, although rather small, is still large enough to trigger my sense of guilt for neglecting to make time for updates. Which reminds me: thank you so much for reading me.

On the other hand, this is who I am, and this is how my brain works. I don’t want this site even to seem like work; I do have a day job, and that’s more than enough for me. Updates will still be posted every Random(30) days, give or take. And if you really REALLY miss me, just give me a sign, and I’ll see what I can do.

I hope you will enjoy reading this journal at least as much as I enjoy writing it.

Cheers.

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