A Question

As a woman am I only allowed to identify with a fellow woman in a movie, play, tv-show etc...

Or if this woman comes from a very different social, cultural, ethnic background, could these also be reasons I shouldn't or can't...

All This Convenient Functionality

 rather touching

Beholding

the photograph of a woman who had just given birth and then reading the comment "Horrible", I know that this is only half the truth. On the other hand to me these are the most overwhelmingly joyous moments I've ever experienced.  There is also the afterthought of feeling sorry for those women who were denied it. Maybe as a woman I should also spare a thought for men who by definition cannot experience it. Even if they are brave enough to accompany the birth, they are condemned to the utmost passiveness...

Baby, you can hold my hand, though probably I won't very much care about it.

Ahh, the bounteness of life

Don Quixote

 or rather his return

How much would you dare and risk to be just...

 

The Archeology of Postures

How often have you gone down on your knees of late und of your own free will...

Posture

Like Chesterton mentions it pretty much depends on whether you are wearing trousers with pockets or a belt.

Too Catholic

Yesterevening I was reminded of an essential feature of my Catholic faith. An auxiliary bishop in his evening prayers talked about the notion that if one assumes oneself to be only evil, one tends to listen too much to the whispers of the great accuser, the devil.

There is this belief, this notion that one can turn at any moment and pursue the other road, there is this capacity for a change for the better. And why shouldn't we?! If one visits Rome and has a look at the two people that almost predominate the city, the fundament of the Roman Catholic church, it's Peter and Paul, and looking at their lives, there were certainly missteps. The one renouncing Jesus, not just once, but thrice, and the other one prosecuting, probably even killing, early Christians ;).