Continue Reading Cross Fertilization In truth, what I was looking for was simply some justification to post pictures of the crows that have joined the squirrels,…
Continue Reading From Micro to Cosmic Scale Let’s end this week with a smile and a frown given my eternal attempts at balanced reporting. (Photographs, since the topics range from…
Continue Reading Large Scale I’ll let you in on a well-guarded secret (and don’t you ever tell.) I read New York Magazine’s Madame Clairvoyant’s Horoscopes on…
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…
