I have been posting on my blog at WordPress since February 2015, words and photography always having been my beloved passions. Writing verse feels otherworldly to me, a portal towards infinite possibilities... always unexpected and liberating. I began by writing poems in Romanian, but in 2016 I also started pairing the originals with their almost word-for-word translation into English. I find inspiration all around me, the beauty and intelligence of everything within or without, which always somehow reminds me of a Gary Paulsen quote I like, "I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!"