Μιλώντας περί ισότητας και δικαιωμάτων με αφορμή την ιστορική εκλογή της κυρίας Σακελλαροπούλου στο αξίωμα της Προέδρου της Ελληνικής Δημοκρατίας, αξίζει να θυμηθούμε ορισμένα πράγματα για το πότε απέκτησαν δικαίωμα ψήφου οι γυναίκες. Η πρώτη χώρα ήταν η Νέα Ζηλανδία που μόλις το 1893 θεσμοθέτησε την ψήφο των γυναικών. Το 1926 άρχισαν να ψηφίζουν οι... Continue Reading →
Darkness / Light…
"However vast the darkness,we must supply our own light."Stanley Kubrick
“A Gift to Bring You”, by Jalaluddin Rumi
You have no idea how hard I've lookedfor a gift to bring You.Nothing seemed right.What's the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the ocean.Everything I came up with, was like taking spices to the Orient.It's no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these.So, I've brought... Continue Reading →
The “10 Best Books of 2019” According to the Editors of “The Times Book Review”
Disappearing Earth By Julia Phillips Julia Phillips writes a novel of overlapping short stories about the women who have been affected not only emotionally and personally but culturally as well, by the disappearance of two young girls. Fiction | Alfred A. Knopf. $26.95. | Read the review | Listen: Julia Phillips on the podcast The Topeka School By Ben... Continue Reading →
How to live with mystery…
We are bathing in mystery and confusion on many subjects and I think that will always be our destiny. The universe will always be much richer than our ability to understand it.Carl Sagan
“Cultural Heritage cannot be a military target and it should never be the object of threats.” UNESCO
"Nothing, absolutely NOTHING, can justify the destruction of cultural heritage. It cannot be a military target and it should never be the object of threats. Cultural heritage is our common history. We all have the duty to protect it for future generations. Let's stand up to protect heritage. Let's gather around our shared humanity and... Continue Reading →
The amazing poem, that flew to space on the Orion spacecraft…
Maya Angelou's poem “A Brave and Startling Truth” was dedicated by the poet (April 4, 1928–May 28, 2014) to “the hope for peace, which lies, sometimes hidden, in every heart.” She composed it for the 50th anniversary of the United Nations in 1995. The second annual Universe in Verse — a celebration of science through poetry,... Continue Reading →
Albert Camus, Carl Jung & the Joker…
How are these three people connected? "The embodiment of the monster, the shadow. The pathway to completion. Jung didn't believe that you could be a good person until you could realize your capacity for evil. I don't mean act it out in the world but to bring it under your control. Because there's a big... Continue Reading →
On Children
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of Children. And he said: Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they... Continue Reading →
“Όποιος δεν ξέρει…”
Όποιος δεν ξέρει και δεν ξέρει πως δεν ξέρει, είναι τρελός. Απόφυγέ τον. Όποιος δεν ξέρει και ξέρει πως δεν ξέρει, είναι παιδί. Μόρφωσέ το. Όποιος ξέρει και δεν ξέρει πως ξέρει, κοιμάται. Ξύπνα τον. Όποιος ξέρει και ξέρει πως ξέρει, είναι σοφός. Ακολούθησέ τον. Kahlil Gibran, (6 Ιανουαρίου 1883 - 10 Απριλίου 1931) Ο... Continue Reading →
