This Just

...made my day ;)!

Horizon

In how far do the choices we take depend on the horizon we perceive, if we perceive one at all?!

"There's a Lesson

...that I teach: tien keer sneller met de fiets (ten times faster by bike)."

Dedication Devotion

in a loving rage that pleases the soul

Grant Pause

Photograph From September 11th by Wislawa Szymborska

They jumped from the burning floors
One, two, a few more,
higher, lower.

The photograph halted them in life
and now keeps them
above the earth toward the earth.

Each still complete,
with a particular face
and blood well hidden

There's enough time
for hair to come loose,
for keys and coins
to fall from pockets.

They're still within the air's reach,
within the compass of places
that have just now opened

I can only do two things for them -
describe this flight
and not add a last line.

Absurd

"I'm already as good as dead. My life has been forfeited, somehow. Yes, I've killed somebody and as far as I've read this results in my life being forfeited."
"When I do not come to terms with all of this I couldn't live on. One limits people's possibilities and at the same time one wants people to change for the better. Therein lies the absurdity of prisons."



Here is an interesting discussion about wether evil is male in German. On the one side there is a scholar, on the other somebody who is a prison physician and part-time actor. The practitioner has at least in my view the better arguments.

Caught Off Guard

...when I heard this song playing on the radio, it reminded me that it's World Suicide Prevention Day today.