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The breeze on a deserted seafront promenade
Read moreThe sea, its expanses, the sea and its shores. The sea softly hissing amid sails, amid boats. Endless blue horizon: you can swim to the sky where, among constellations, the eternal is nigh. The sea softly singing with the music of spheres; the sea with its swinging while we sink, while we die. The sea […]
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My daughter wants flip-flops
Read moreSuch is the patriarchy. Had God been Goddess for sure there’d have been a ‘Fiat calceamenta!’ in there somewhere, right after ‘Let there be light.’ Somewhere in-between crocodiles & farm animals and lone Adam begging for more cuddle time. ‘Let there be purses and handbags,’ but, above all, ‘let there be shoes,’ in all colors […]
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Quote of the day
Read more“We are faced with the curiously appalling trend of modern thought, in which the absolute which was once a means of entering into communion with the divine, has now become an instrument used by those who profit from it, to distort, pervert, and conceal the meaning of the present.“ Karl Mannheim – Ideology and Utopia […]
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Tomorrow the river will swell
Read moreThe storm crawled in from the southwest as it always does, lighting up the sky with silent fireworks after sundown. The rain came slowly. It seemed far away. It seemed almost spent by the time it reached us. We sit side by side on this balcony, suspended on different planets of thought, some gaseous, some […]