Landscapes of my mind

The emotional landscape of my life is a different universe than the intellectual landscape. The rules that apply in one break down in the other. The principles that define one are meaningless in the other. What is well-formed in one is warped in the other. They are different universes – neither opposite, nor the same. […]

Jonjhua

Surely we are asking the wrong questions. Why are we alive? Why do we exist? What is the purpose of life? What’s the point? What is going on? Why do we die? What is reality? I have figured out – the right question to ask is Jonjhua. Jonjhua we alive? Jonjhua we exist? Jonjhua purpose […]

Fake

How easily our lives get swept away by the fake world of borders and stock markets, advertisements and sports, being good-looking and looking good, the evening news and the morning newspaper, the talk shows and the reality tv, the national elections and the international ones, the wars and the freedom struggles. How easily we make […]

Poetry

Like all kids, I was a born poet. I was naturally gifted to see the rainbow in the oily puddle in the road. Then – my language improved, I started articulating better, became aware of subtle nuances of communication, geometrically expanded my vocabulary and… promptly gave up on poetry. What if I got my poetry […]

On Writing

The greatest respect an author can have for his public is never to produce what is expected but what he himself considers right and useful for whatever stage of intellectual development has been reached by himself and others. -Von Goethe