“Don’t keep fighting your environment, if it is that bad, then change your environment” – I tell myself this often, but saying that to myself often enough does not result in preventing my fighting it over and over again. Conditioned as a prisoner, I like finite, clear cut aspects in things around me. And as [...]

When I quit a regular job in 2008, taking out more time for myself was not one of the things I had planned on. It mostly happened as a result of, well, actually not having a lot to do at times. Eventually, I started travelling a bit, tried going for walks regularly, but it [...]

Today, I have no stories to tell. There is only the faint glow of an old oil lamp, a flame from the wick steadily lighting up a warm circle, keeping at bay the night and its darkness. There should, ideally, be a breeze, but not today. There is only a loud stillness and the ebb [...]

The gap between “is” and “could have been” determines so much of who and what we are. Most of our lives are then spent trying to either overcome the gap or trying to overcome the fact that there is so much of a gap.

For most of my life I have never really wanted [...]

One of the more regrettable losses of my recent life is drifting farther away from my writing. I make half starts now and then, promising myself that I will persuade me to write more often, that the spark still lurks somewhere needing only a bit of gentle pushing, But, as time mercilessly grinds its [...]