Making Our Mark
“If our life were without end and free from pain, it would possibly not occur to anyone to ask why the world exists.” So said German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer around […]
Tag Archives: life
Is all hope groundless hope?
Live without hope. Think without hope. It makes suffering worse. That is the moral of a recent piece on The New York Times’ The Stone blog named, fittingly, Abandon (Nearly) […]
A Breath of Beauty
An iconic movement blossomed in Parisian circles in the late 1860s. Artists like Claude Monet, Jean-Pierre Renoir and Edward Degas started to forge a new way of painting, opening a […]
To make a difference
Nothing inspires me most than seeing a good person die. I mean not that they die, of course. I wish they would live longer; I wish they’d never die. But […]
The Fear of Belonging
Why are we afraid of belonging? Because we lose control? Independence? Pride? I thought about these questions flying back home from a hug-filled conference in Lisbon, when islands of saneness […]
Fight Song
I got into the car recently in a bit of a surly mood. A few things hadn’t gone as I had anticipated the previous day, I had received an unwelcome email […]
The Mosaic of Life
Some weeks ago, on my way to studies in Oxford, I landed at Gatwick Airport. The usually distracted routine–have my passport controlled, get my bag, go through customs–was startled by […]
We all could use a Hygge
If you ask me, every country needs a Copenhagen. A city of culture, history, diversity, peerless coffee, sensational gluten free food (I speak as a coeliac), and unseemly natural beauty. […]
Flying Away
A few summers ago, there was this song you could hear everywhere. On the radio, at the beauty salon, at the supermarket. It was one of Nelly Furtado’s earliest hits, I’m […]
Closure and New Beginnings
Last night I watched Aloha, a 2015 film starring Rachel McAdams, Bradley Cooper, and Emma Stone. It is a movie, among a few things, about closure and new beginnings. The […]
Wondering Fair 