The striking modern design of Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Rosarrio de Fátima (Church of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fátima) in Lisbon, with its plain, mostly white exterior, single geometrically shaped tower and horizontal roof, caused a stir and heated public debate when it was built. Unlike older churches it is surrounded by […]
“To know fully even one field or one land is a lifetime’s experience. In the world of poetic experience it is depth that counts, not width. A gap in a hedge, a smooth rock surfacing a narrow lane, a view of a woody meadow, the stream at the junction of four small fields – these […]
“We live in an age in which there is too much information, less knowledge and even less wisdom. The ration needs to be reversed. We definitely need less information, more knowledge, and much more wisdom.”– Elif Shafak Television was only introduced countrywide in South Africa at the beginning 1976. I was 6 years old. Looking […]
“Each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed, continually, unconsciously, by, through, and in us – through our perceptions, our feelings, our thoughts, our actions; and, not least, our discourse, our spoken narrations. Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as […]
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