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 to get closer to a kind of understanding the disturbing social changes, the alarming developments […]
Inspirations
David Weiss: Synecdoche and its Discontents
for Matthew Lippman *Synecdoche: a figure of speech in which a part is used for a whole
About the stoic planting of trees
“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 shepherd Elzéard Bouffier lives in the barren, dry mountain region of Provence, where, as the […]