Tyler emailed me a long while back. For certain reasons, I haven't been able to answer him until now. While writing my reply, I noticed that I wanted to share something about this topic here as well. It’s about clouds. Delighted to have stumbled upon your blog. There’s almost nothing I love more than a cloud. A...

Once again, I didn’t wake up by the sea. Oh well.Nevertheless, good morning. Reply by email

Sssh, did you enjoy the silence in here? It’s been quite a while since my last post. And even though it can generally be quite helpful at times to cozy up with silence and use it as a blanket, you still have to be careful that this condition doesn't get out of hand and take root. At least in the right amount. Life...

This image was actually an accident (as is so often the case). I wanted to take a direct shot of the rainbow. But the autofocus decided to focus on the raindrops. By the time I noticed, the moment had already passed. And it just so happened to turn out to be a photo I couldn't have done better myself. Reply by email

What I sometimes find truly remarkable about spending time with my children is how often they help me reconnect with my own long-forgotten experiences. Through their descriptions of their daily lives, feelings and impressions surface within me that I haven’t thought about even once in the past 40 years. Simon is...

Nothing in this life has transformed me in such a positive and lasting way—and helped me, overall, become a better person—as raising my two children. Especially as a man, this has finally allowed me to work through a shitload of issues—or I’m still in the process of doing so. Throughout the entire process of being a...

I was just about to take care of some important government paperwork. An hour later, I know all about the phenomenon where children sometimes start out writing words in mirror writing, what this suggests about adults, and that Leonardo da Vinci, as a left-hander, wrote nearly all of his notes in mirror writing....

Was ich manchmal wirklich bemerkenswert am Begleiten der eigenen Kinder finde, ist, wie häufig es passiert, dass sie Erinnerungsbrücken zu den eigenen, weit zurückliegenden Erlebnissen wiederherstellen. Wie durch ihre Beschreibungen ihres Alltags Gefühle und Eindrücke in mir zum Vorschein kommen, an die ich in den...

Conversations that never took place between people who never met. Video edited by Jonas Hollerup Helle using existing interviews, and I think that's one of his best. Reply by email

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I’ve just realized again how much I associate learning and memorizing things with movement. For example, I remember number combinations best when I picture a keypad and then mentally trace the movements I make with my fingers. The sense of direction, the stretching of the finger joints, the positioning of the...

The heat wave of the past few days has also hit this part of Europe, and judging by your blog posts and social media updates, we’re not the only ones dealing with it here in Germany (warm and sweaty greetings to England). The little stream in front of our house is clearly running low on water, and overall, it’s much...