While there is still time

Am I walking a little ahead of you  so that no snake will bite your sandalled foot?  John Berger Page 44, 'And our Faces, My Heart, Brie...

“Drawing is anyway an exercise in orientation and as such may be compared with other processes of orientation which take place in nature. ...

Hold Everything Dear For John Berger ....the paths they make towards us and how far we open towards them the justice of grass that unr...

"In the Louvre in Paris there is a Bathsheba painted by him (William Drost, Rembrandt's disciple) which...

 "A loved one is also singular, distinct, separate. The more closely one defines, regardless of any given va...

For Kavya, who sends me these beautiful lines from a cold country, saved by the bright sunshine she revels in: “To make the most...

A view of Delft, by  Johannes Vermeer In that town, across the water where all has been seen and the bricks a...

There will always be suffering It flows through life like water I put my hand over hers Down in the lime-tree arbour. Nick Cave (Aust...

"Month by month, millions leave their homelands. They leave because there is nothing there, except their everything , which does not o...

Once in a Story We are both storytellers. Lying on our backs, we look up at the night sky. This is where stories began, under the aegis o...

"What reconciles me to my own death more than anything else is the image of a place: a place where your bones and mine are buried, thr...

" There are 8000 political prisoners in Israeli jails, 350 of them under eighteen years old. A period in prison has become a normal ph...

"Philosophy is really homesickness, it is the urge to be at home everywhere." Novalis Page 54, 'And our Faces, My Heart, ...

Artist, art critic, novelist, painter and author, John Berger has always fascinated me. He spans the world of words an...

"Originally home meant the center of the world - not in the geographical, but in the ontological sense. Mircea Eliade has demonstrated ...

"...In a village, the difference between what is known about a person and what is unknown is slight. There may be a number of well-guar...

"In all pre-industrial societies people have believed that living is a way of living a story. In this story one is always the protagoni...

Poems, even when narrative, do not resemble stories. All stories are about battles, of one kind or another, which end in victory and defeat....

"The post office at Auxonne is small and the postmistress has blue eyes. I have been there only twice. The first time was to send you...

“When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total l...