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REENCOUNTER

A short film which is also a beautiful visual poem on love, mourning, loss, the passing of time, hope, life, death, reencounter. A poetic view on...

TEMPUS FUGIT, CARPE DIEM

All too often, time goes by without us even noticing. We ride the present moment like surfers balancing on their boards, on the crest of the wave...

Stroke economy

“If I had to choose between pain and nothing, I would always choose pain,” says a character in William Faulkner’s “Wild Palms”. Not...

SACRED EARTH

There are few things more beautiful than either the heart of a good person or this Earth that shelters us until it becomes corrupted by the hand...

BLURRED

Certain blurred or fuzzy images charge a singular beauty, unused, because reality shows in unusual geometries, in informal abstractions that...

THE LOOK

Each of us have a look. I am not referring to what others see in someone’s face, in his eyes as he looks. I mean how we see the world. The look...

The Pygmalion effect

Do you know what the  Pygmalion effect? Have you wonder how can the beliefs other people have about us alter our behaviour? Can favourable...

LET'S MAKE A DEAL

Perhaps one of the most beautiful of love poems. By Mario Benedetti, in his own voice on YouTube. The extraordinary verses run:   My...

LETTER FROM CHIEF SEATTLE

This letter was sent in 1855 by Native American Chief Seattle of the Duwamish Tribe to Franklin Pierce, President of the United States in...

SIMPLICITY, WORK AND PLEASURE

Here are Maia Helles’ secrets for a long life. Maia is a 95-year-old Russian dancer who’s in extraordinary shape. Look at the beauty of this...

‘WORDS FOR JULIA’

With this poem I made a start on “Good Life”. I read and re-read it, and it always, always moves me. Sometimes it is exciting;...

THANKS LIFE

I wrote in “Good Life”: “Gratitude is nice, that is, it invites us to love. As much for the one who expresses it as for the one who...

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