Car, motorcycle, electric bike, and on foot – these are the different methods of transport available to me for my...
We, the living, are always present for the deceased. We should never forget that. Their world encompasses ours; our world...
Robinson Crusoe befriends a ‹savage›. In the existentialism of his situation, he overcomes the cultural boundaries that would have made ‹Friday› a slave. He gains a human friend. When a young acquaintance suddenly had a tumor in her head, all our quarrels became null and void. Our trivialities and emotional...
A walk in the city. A coffee in hand. Looking around slowly. Almost invisible, with a magic hood, barely two...
During my Easter visit to Potsdam, I met I., a young mother and sales manager from Odesa in Ukraine. Her...
I recently stood with some friends in front of a painting by Lucas Cranach at Friedenstein Castle in Gotha, Germany. The painting depicts Christ and Mary against an indistinct dark background, as if emerged from the ether. Just their head and shoulders are painted, with garments as soft and dark...
Sometimes, everyday life is better than secluded meditation to get to the bottom of one’s own soul. When we talk...
The Protestant aid organization Bread for the World published the Atlas of Civil Society last week. The book documents in...
Jean appears, hand outstretched and a shining hat of light on his head—a special hat that perhaps only I can see. This thought does not console me. For Jean is entirely inside that hat, and his words fall out of it. It’s a very positive impression: this man does not...
Intimacy is within and without. In the aridity and solitude of the desert, I am thrown back on myself, while...
Just after the sun sets, the two brightest planets, Jupiter and Venus, can be seen shining in the western sky...
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