Beloved Fertility
When my brother spoke – with a firm conviction that I had never seen in him before – of having a child with thirty, it did not only remind me that he had grown up just so fast but …
Moonlight on the Bonsai in the Lounge
On a late Monday evening I am awaiting mushrooms to grow in Venice by morning, and for the rest of the night the bonsai in the lounge can bathe in moonlight. There are mosaics somewhere in the distance, whitewashed in …
Re-cap 23rd June – Not the “B”-word again
Democracy is not always just, let alone fair. It is simply a concept that allows everyone in a group to voice his opinion, and this opinion can be overruled by the majority of people.That’s simply how secularism forms in modern …
Reasoned Suicide
Disease. It is an almost gentle word, with a lot of rounded letters, yet only the i hints at something that could affect the greater population. Diseases grow within, and sometimes out of us. But it is often perceived as …
The morning after…
…the meltdown. It’s like a hangover. Just not as painful, or sickening. When you made it with a fair amount of sleep you know you are over the worst. There were times when a meltdown was the final straw to …
Multispiritual Concepts – Beyond Belief
While the rain settles on the ever fading grounds, let’s talk about Buddhist monks, and, of course, Ahimsa. A way of life new to the conventional capitalist world, while Trump rages in America, the unknown fall from the sky and …
A Question of Extrication
Here we are: sixteen years after the Simpsons predicted a Trump presidency and someone finally invented pencils that grow into a plant.Oh right! And don’t forget that poetry has become the hip currency to pay for your morning coffee.Liberation is …
Afraid of the dark
Sometimes, against (most) all odds, you will lose what you have loved most, or what has loved you most in return.The older you get, the more you realise that love is by no means enough for anything out there to …
Amnesia of an Aspie
I lost count on the many things I have lost over the past weeks. Weight surely isn’t one of them. It’s still an ongoing process, getting used to my new home, new furniture (my own, yet all is so unfamiliar …
Within a month a life can change, once you grow up then moving on becomes more difficult.Perhaps it isn’t quite the mental challenge I was looking for but at least I can regain the freedom they had taken from me.While …