English Issue 1-2/2024

If you have children or are particularly close to a child, then you may remember the feeling of tenderness that overcomes us when a child is born. Our awakening to the fragility and gravity of the earthly world begins in birth. With their innocent presence, children also show us what lightness is—in them, an image of life still lives in a dreamlike way, something we as adults have to strive for in order to experience it again. As a new year is born, this issue looks back, and ahead, to explore such threshold moments, and how we might develop strength and perspectives for navigating their paradoxes.