While there is still time

Naomi Shihab Nye, American poet and writer, was born of a Palestinian Muslim father and an American Christian mother. This excerpt is from ...

"Pre-industrial societies have little notion of a person as a separate entity. A Nigerian psychiatrist told me that, when a psychiatri...

What is Lost Jorge Luis Borges I wonder where my life is, the one that could have been and never was, the daring one or the one of gloom...

Note Autobiographical "Every time he speaks of himself you sense something missing, something not quite true. It's not that you d...

Sabse khatarnak hota hai hamaare sapnon ka mar jaana Sabse khatarnak hota hai murda shanti se bhar jana, Na hona tadap ka, sab kuch saha...

The Layers I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides, fro...

Interview, Saudi Arabia The fathers do not know what the sons have done. They are waiting for the sons to call home, to say it was a mista...

Beautiful music, from this young Viennese composer, Albors Askari: http://soundcloud.com/dreimalbla Breath. The Sund...

An incredible art/dance piece by artist Nobuyuki Hanabusa and dancer Katsumi Sakakura, together known as Kagemu. ...

Such beauty, that you almost stop breathing. The Causes Jorge Luis Borges The sunsets and the generations The days and none was first...

They are selling calendars at the traffic signals. Calendars for 2012. No. Not again. Not another year. You are so...

...A universe that includes you can't be all bad, but does it? At this distance you're a mirage, a glossy image fixed in t...

Kiro, the best student of a karate master of the shotokan style in Nagasaki, easily defeated a long-haired young man in an August Moon fest...

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

From Mircea Eliade 's 'The Sacred and the Profane, The Nature of Religion': Profane Duration and Sacred Time For religious ...