Continue Reading Crossbones Well, I lived to tell the tale. For a moment, though, I thought I’d succumb to a heart attack. Here I am,…
Continue Reading Cross Roads If you had asked me some months ago what Critical Race Theory is, the likely answer would have been, “Huh?” These days,…
Continue Reading Cross Fertilization In truth, what I was looking for was simply some justification to post pictures of the crows that have joined the squirrels,…
Continue Reading From Micro to Cosmic Scale Let’s end this week with a smile and a frown given my eternal attempts at balanced reporting. (Photographs, since the topics range from…
Continue Reading Large Scale I’ll let you in on a well-guarded secret (and don’t you ever tell.) I read New York Magazine’s Madame Clairvoyant’s Horoscopes on…
Continue Reading Small Scale The neighborhood where I have now lived for 35 years is utterly familiar, yet also undergoing constant change. On a larger scale,…
Continue Reading The Beauty of Resonance I know it’s not fair to sing the praises of a new book non-German speakers won’t yet have access to. Helga Schubert’s…
Continue Reading Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder I am generally not a fan of Charles Bukowski’s writings. A thought-provoking essay on the man, his life and his work, some…
Continue Reading Beauty as a form of care Today is all about music, a new album that I find singularly graceful, or, more precisely, full of grace. The real thing, in…
Continue Reading Environmental Influence (2) Unless you are into dystopian end-of-the-world movies that contain violence, cannibalism, stratified societies, slave-work, murder and mayhem during an 18-year-long train ride…
