More Secrets

and very pleasant and pleasing ones.

Of all the suggestions Pope John XXIII made in his Daily Decalogue , the one that affects me the most is number six:

Only for today, I will do a good deed and not tell anyone about it.

I imagine someone secretly smiling to himself/ herself all the time. The German expression "sich freuen wie ein Honigkuchenpferd"/ "to be merry like a  gingerbread-horse " comes to my mind because it absolutely fits the occasion.

The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret

With all those conspiracy theories around and all the paranoia, it's getting even more difficult to keep a secret. 



Spoiler alert if you haven't read Umberto Eco's novel Foucault's Pendulum yet!


Concerning all those popular conspiracy theories Eco presents in this novel the ultimate secret , which would be a complete empty one. Go figure out ;)!