Zerebria

Tomorrow is the autumnal equinox: the moment in which, after the bright Summer, day and night equal their forces. From then on, days will become shorter, and darkness will gain ground.

There is a change of patterns in nature and we should change ours, too. (more…)

“What the world needs is…” A common sentence, with probably 6,500,000,000 different endings, one for each of the inhabitants of this troubled world of us. I recently had a ‘gestalt’ of my personal answer, one of those moments in which you see the whole picture as a whole (snap!). Here it goes for what is worth. (more…)

The house has been on fire ever since it was built. Maybe even while it was being built. It has become a tradition to think of the house in connection with flames, just like one cannot conceive a piano without keys or (more…)

Here’s a story about the difference between efficiency and effectiveness. A few summers ago, I was spending some days with my family at the beach. One morning, I went to the balcony and found certain relative of mine, not very intelligent, who was (more…)

When I see a person carrying a suitcase, I try to (more…)

There were so many times when I wished I was dead in the “perfect” world we had 10 or 15 years ago, that my views on what we now call “the crisis” might have, at least, (more…)

Yes, we read a lot more than before. But is it quality reading? The spirit of each age modifies our habits and perceptions, and (more…)

Today let me sing a little chant in favor of originality and personal difference.

We live tough times for originality. Our globalized world has turned all ranges of human experience into very standard patterns, so all of us are very alike, and most of passions have become collective. Even in those cases when (more…)