Continue Reading Luck Perhaps it is no accident that we found ourselves discussing the issue of luck at a place that serves fortune cookies. Surrounded…
Continue Reading L’Shanah Tovah Tomorrow begins the New Year so I’ll be posting my wishes today. As a variation on the sweetness of and I’ll offer this wish…
Continue Reading Castelleto Miramare His last words were, “I forgive everyone, and I ask everyone to forgive me.” Know who I am talking about? Archduke Ferdinand…
Continue Reading Polder Holland “Without cows the Dutch cultural landscape is drowsily boring.” The cultural landscape? Or the landscape per se? I mulled over this sentence found…
Continue Reading Heavy Metal “I’m interested in cultural phenomena that symbolize oddness and excess. Currently I’m looking at competitive table-setting competitions, home decorating in the…
Continue Reading Mihrab “My art focusses on the power of women – to remind myself I have power.” I heard this sentence in an interview with…
Continue Reading Spellbound “Trying to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up something made of wood by using a magnet.” This sentence by Philip…
Continue Reading Modes of Transportation I got to Europe, how else, by airplane. The worst ecological footprint imaginable. What I found in Holland, of course, were bikes. All…
Continue Reading Grafitti – the Old Fashioned Version Painting on public surfaces is nothing new – I don’t have a clue to when we can date back the earliest frescos,…
Continue Reading Urban Aesthetics (Ljublijana) You can find a lot of art, both curated and spontaneous, in the streets of the old city center of Ljublijana. (And…
