Show us your Achilles’ heel

«You are invulnerable, you have no Achilles’ heel.» Portrait of a Lady, T.S.Eliot ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I don’t know what we choose in our lives; and what chooses us. Things...

Children need parents, not servants

  A beautiful spring day when the sun made its appearance again after a short break, I took my son to the neighborhood’s playground. As...

One more hour of eternal life

The radio plays all day long requiems, gospel music, oratorios, religious sonatas, laments and lamented songs. In between, “The Sermon on the Mount” as...

Enjoy your madness

  Madness runs in my blood. This is the only thing I inherited from my family. No fortune or business or even a damn field. Others...

Those who fear loneliness

I love the night. Especially after midnight when everybody is asleep and there is no sound but the wind. The mind becomes clear then,...

Birds born in a cage don’t know how to fly

An anthropologist (let us call her Jane) visited an African tribe (let us call it Narash). The Narash had been in touch with civilization –...