The body is dark. Everything that happens within it is invisible. From the outside, it is visible—and as a human...
I’m young wherever I am perceptive and eager to learn. I can always immerse myself in something, or let something...
The first train is already delayed, and I’m waiting on a crowded platform in Germany, on a hot Friday in June. So many soldiers! I haven’t seen that in a long time. Female soldiers, too. They stand alone and don’t talk to anyone. They look serious. They’re young. Faces with...
Back in 2024, I watched dozens of people gathering in a field. Children ran around. People set up telescopes and...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a theologian and member of the resistance during the Nazi era, devoted much of his work to the...
He seems to stumble constantly, but his heart drives him onward. Every time, something goes wrong; and yet—from wall to wall, from fall to fall—he still sees the light, again and again. He feels the depth of nature’s embrace and, at the same time, the abyss. He embraces his higher...
A tree’s life story is inscribed in its core. Each year, a new layer of cells forms around the existing...
There are two occasions when a community becomes closely knit and deeply connected, as if by magic. At these moments...
I asked for a receipt for the far-too-expensive visit to the small Ethiopian farmstead. The men just stared blankly at me. Was I getting ripped off? I sounded like my mother and realized that her way of dealing with things had shaped me. I tried to smooth things over with...
What would it be like if you were to mother yourself? Shortly after Easter, a small group of people took...
A child deprived of her parents draws a picture of her mother on the floor with chalk, then lies down...
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