robertfaeth

on Beauty: Meeting nature on its own terms and timescales broadens our perspective by effecting a detachment from the urgencies of d...

Herbsttag  Herr: es ist Zeit. Der Sommer war sehr groß.   Leg deinen Schatten auf die Sonnenuhren,   und auf den Fluren laß die Wi...

Melancholy: The Blues has got me. There’s no sun up in the sky, stormy weather... I stand by my window, look out at October-tint...

Loneliness and Creativity: A most unpleasant feeling. Since we are, biologically, evolutionary descendants of social animals, animal...

Meditation on a Grapefruit To wake when all is possible before the agitations of the day have gripped you                       To c...

Multitudinous Seas Incarnadine...  Whence is that knocking? How is't with me, when every noise appalls me? What hands are here? ...

Words, English Words - A Transcript of Virginia Woolf‘s BBC Broadcast: Sometimes the arts themselves interlink, music and painting, m...

Funeral Blues  Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone. Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and wit...

“A Little Life” by Hanya Yanagihara*: It may be dark and traumatic, and it was published in 2016, but it is one of the most moving ...

Why Fasting Makes Me Think Of Swiss Saxonia: Intermission fasting! Which you might have heard of and I just recently, is a method t...

Old Fashioned Books Are Still Sexy: for nearly 10 years now I do read books on an ebook reader and have always loved the easy, uncompli...

Hello , this is my first ever blog. And I mean: ever. So what made me want to start a blog? For one, I recently updated my very, very o...