I am no longer the child who looked at the camera from the changing table 50 years ago. But I...
«It seems that mechanical-technical civilization is primarily deadly for the soul. The heart can hardly bear the icy touch of...
When visiting another country, I show my appreciation for ‹foreign› people and their culture by trying to thank, greet, and say goodbye to them in their language. I accept one part of the other, the unfamiliar, appreciatively into myself. Giving thanks creates a bridge from myself to the other. This...
Our tour group had booked an auditorium in the hotel in Luxor, Egypt. We were there on time, but an...
Do you know Beethoven’s ‹Immortal Beloved›? Beethoven dedicated all his music from a certain point in time to an ‹immortal...
Who still owns the truth today? The world has become incredibly complex in the last 100 years. The longing for simple answers is greater than ever – but these are more difficult to get than ever. Opinions are plentiful. They often come in black or white. There are endless, contradictory...
Blackbirds, tits, and finches do not argue about the way they sing. They simply sing and chirp the beauty’s tones....
During my Easter visit to Potsdam, I met I., a young mother and sales manager from Odesa in Ukraine. Her...
What can philosophy do about uncertainty? This is what two journalists of the ‹NZZ› asked Peter Sloterdijk a few years ago. The philosopher replied that a story had to be told in which the insecure could find themselves. This narrative must reach as far as the French Revolution because, since...
Fear is a fact of life, but our relationship to it is something different. Life brings defeats – we have...
500,000 people have looked at Caroline Kube’s fingers showing how to crochet a potholder with a waffle pattern. These half-million...
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