By Klaus Döring Some feelings of worry can be healthy, pushing us to find solutions to real and present problems. However, chronic worry, even about things out of our control, can severely impact our mental health. The German poet Rainer Maria Rilke put it well: “Life is not even close to being as logically consistent
February 9, 2024
It’s the beginning of February 2024. Sure, I do my tasks every day. Writing, teaching, and so on. I just don’t like consuming the news anymore. It’s just depressing. Are there really positive and negative news? I learned during my studies and training: Only a negative headline makes a good headline. Of course,
February 6, 2024
Over and over again, it is seen that burglary, robbery and serious assaults occur most frequently in the area where shanties are and the family income is so low that it cannot suffice the needs of the family. The houses are extremely overcrowded with few facilities. Unemployment is very common. People in
February 2, 2024
I’m not saying that life is always easy-life is a challenge. When we struggle against the natural rhythms of life, we create resistance and opposition and this is what leads to struggle. With struggle there is no joy and rarely any reward. In fact, for some people struggle is the reward. Since
January 30, 2024
Series of images or thoughts in the mind of a person asleep – the idle fancy, the vision, the aspiration, the yearnings. They are dreams that have interested, puzzled and frightened people for thousands of years. All kinds of strange explanations have been written about dreams. Interpreters of dreams have published innumerable
January 25, 2024
It’s as if we can’t deal with down time. What happened to just staring out the window, lost in our thoughts? Now we have to be constantly entertained. That’s not an addiction. That’s just pitiful. Refusal and compassion characterize society’s attitude as regards social weaklings and handicapped people. It’s a topic which
January 16, 2024
To be or not to be. Sein oder nicht sein. Shakespeare. To say it clearly: without faith we’re really nothing. Faith is belief; believe in us, in our works, talents and our personalities. We should also believe in our parents – or much better, in our whole family including the black sheep,
January 11, 2024
We could spend all year living healthier, more productive lives, so why do we only decide to make the change at the start of EVERY year? Why do we all make (and break) New Year resolutions? Many of us will start 2024 with resolutions too: to get fit, learn a new skill,
January 5, 2024
The Years Between (1946) is a British film directed by Compton Bennett and starring Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson and Flora Robson in an adaptation of the 1945 play The Years Between by Daphne du Maurier. It was shot at the Riverside Studios. “Evocative details about family, friends, writers and landscapes make Lynn
December 28, 2023
In the 9th and 10th centuries, Northern European monasteries developed the Christmas hymn into a sequence of rhymed stanzas. The Parisian monk Adam of Saint Victor began to derive music from popular songs in the 12th century, which introduced something closer to the traditional Christmas carol. There is no formal definition. Wintertime
December 19, 2023
Time flew by. I think sitting in a jet plane. December again. Wow! “Those Were the Days” is a song credited to Gene Raskin, who put a new English lyric to the Russian romance song “Дорогой длинною” (Romance transliteration “Dorogoy dlinnoyu”, literally “By the long road”), composed by Boris Fomin (1900–1948) with
December 13, 2023
A study of drinking around the world warns that even an occasional glass of wine or beer can increase your chances of disease and an early death. Scientists say there’s no such thing as a “safe level” of alcohol. Christmas parties, wonderful get-togethers, family homecomings. Many reasons to consume more than one
December 8, 2023