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The Delicate Dance Between Solitude and Communion: Solitude, how I grave you and yet, how I do despise you. There are times when I dream o...

The More Loving One Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the l...

W. H. Auden: “If equal affection cannot be, / Let the more loving one be me”, (THE MORE LOVING ONE).  Augustine wrote that love is “a kind...

Proprioception* and Existence: The main sense of living, that what makes me truly feel alive, feel I exist, comes from the interactio...

The Tyranny of Vulnerability: Now, still in the Crisis, although the worst first onslaught seems to be over, at least until the s...

One Art The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaste...

The Joy of Baking: This is not another food blog. Or is it? Well, it is about food, yes, specifically about baked food. But it is ...

Murdoch on Suffering and Morality: All of the following is out of  The Black Prince,  Iris Murdoch‘s strange, funny, frightening, e...

Standstill - Stillness - Silence: One cannot help but register the effects and implications this Corona crisis has on all of us an...

A (moderately) healthy recipe in which most of the sweetness comes from the figs. I love it. Dough: 150 g dried figs 2 e...

Metamorphosis: Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops a conspicuous and relatively abrupt cha...

Ethics vs. Aesthetics: In light of the vehemence of rejection which met the publication of Woody Allen’s latest biography the question aris...

Youth - And Why We Shouldn’t Shed Tears When It Is Gone: Undoubtedly our youth is one of the most important and well remembered ...

“A Fairly Honourable Defeat” by Iris Murdoch: In her thirteenth novel,  published 1970,  Iris Murdoch depicts a social network of...

After my success with the red wine cake (see previous blog entry) I went on a search for another mind soother and found this recipe: ...