According to William James Desmond, the Irish Philosopher, the world is full of wonder, abundance and worth. In our podcast, we talked about his approach to being and life, so I read more about him. A few days earlier, a…
He had a profound influence on music in post-war Germany, but also later in his creative work on hearing and listening. He built a bridge between music and physics, spirituality and philosophy—so how is it that he seems almost forgotten?…
Rutger Bregman´s “Hopeful History” In our everyday lives, we repeatedly experience how kind and caring people can be. It’s good to remember how every day many people help maintain social stability and contribute to social growth and functioning in a…
A conversation with my dear friend Tiffany Cooper. She lives near New York and since she was campaigning for Kamala Harris before the election, I wanted to know how she feels now about the actual situation in the US. Tiffany…
Facing the daily, ever-unsettling and shocking news, we try to understand the changes and make sense of them. The latest scientistic studies in brain research and the new findings about the different functions of the two hemispheres are a way…
for Matthew Lippman *Synecdoche: a figure of speech in which a part is used for a whole
“The man who planted trees” (L’homme qui plantait des arbres) is a parable for our time – and it is a story that I have been thinking about more often recently. Jean Giono wrote this short story in 1953: The…