Dear Self

Dear Self, We don’t talk enough. I fail to remember our last discussion. I’ve neglected you. Most times I just choose silence. Maybe I don’t even pay any attention to you. Maybe I’ve never given you the respect, the admiration and the love you deserve. Maybe I’ve humiliated you and left you hanging, for people […]

“Many small people…”

“Many small people, in many small places, do many small things, that can alter the face of the world.” The above African saying for three whole decades adorns part of what’s left from the Berlin Wall in East Side Gallery, but today, in 2020, it seems to be more relevant and necessary than ever. Watching […]

Cavaleras Literarias

For most of us, the second day of November is, among other days, an ordinary day of the year. For Mexican people though, it is anything but an ordinary day. It is known as “Dia de losMuertos” or Day of the Dead. As expected from just its name, someone could assume that it’s about something […]

Lonely solists

The conductor in a sing swoop starts the music of the orchestra. All together the musicians translate all those scribbles into music and a dreamy melody fills the room, reaching the furthest into it. Just like that, it touches your deepest inner part of your psyche and social existence. Until now, you are too a […]

Momentum: The drive and the dynamics of your regeneration

You are at ground zero, at the point of utter inertia.You feel as if you are sinking in a dark crevice, where the rays of light seem now an unreachable utopia. But you can’t stop thinking about them. You can’t stop thinking of and desiring the light. And then, in most absolute silence, in the […]

“The boy who wore a dress”

Let us imagine that our day has finally come to an end and we are looking back to all the people we came across today. In our minds we may recall pictures of men wearing trousers and also women wearing dresses. Nothing notable up to this point. Additionally, we will recall women wearing trousers. Once […]