My Mister – A Study in Happiness
I am not immune to being manipulated by algorithms. In as many months, I have ended up watching my third Korean drama, My Mister, after crime thriller Signal (good) and…
Pickles
As I mourn, I think I need an impressive memory of my maternal grandmother to remember her by. All I keep thinking of are her homemade lime and mango pickles.…
The Pine Islands – Marion Poschmann
The affirmation of one’s own life, happiness, growth, freedom is rooted in one’s capacity to love, i.e., in care, respect, responsibility, and knowledge. If an individual is able to love…
Structural Dynamics of Flow
How are you feeling? Pretty good. “You asked me last week if I would tell you if John wasn’t okay. Well he’s not. He called a dog.” (S01E07, Patriot) Patriot, an…
In Time
In the first chapter of her book Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert writes about courage. Her notion of ‘creative living’ is “living a life that is driven more strongly by curiosity than…
Burma
I spent some time last month reading two graphic novels, Burmese Moons by Sophie Ansel and Sam Garcia and Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle, to a sobering realisation of how…
The Indian Epics Retold – R. K. Narayan
Is it true that everyone in India knows of the Ramayana and Mahabharata? I think this might not be such an outlandish claim. Of course, it may be that there…
Mooncop – Tom Gauld
There are some books that you know instinctively not to read out loud to anyone. There needs to be a conversation between the author and you, but mainly it is…
Clifton – Raymond Macherot
Colonel Sir Harold Wilberforce Clifton (or Percy Pickwick in German editions) is your quintessential British detective. Retired from MI5, he now lives with his (I counted six) cats and housekeeper…