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…
Continue Reading Scents and Sensibility When you catch me reading Popular Mechanics you know something is off. Well, you should know if you are a regular…
Continue Reading Environmental Influence (1) Today I want to introduce a surrealist painter, Arturo Nathan, who was born into a Jewish family in Trieste, Italy in 1891…
Continue Reading Reveling in the Present The last photographers I want to introduce this week are wizards when it comes to capturing birds on camera. It doesn’t hurt…
Continue Reading Documenting Past and Present Give me an example where you felt triumphant and demoralized at the same time. Nothing comes to mind? Here is one of…
Continue Reading Imagined Past and Future These days I have a hard time remembering all the stuff I read during the course of a week. By all I…
