I drew my face the other night. It’s not an easy task, not for me anyway. It was hard, frustrating, challenging and delightful. I stared at my face in the mirror, stared at what was supposed to be my face on the page, at lines, shapes, curves, shadows, highlights, at the marks my pencil made [...]

“Some people help others just to make themselves feel better than they really are.” I read this sentence and thought: “helping others only to make yourself feel better is not a good thing. It is selfish, it’s cheating, manipulation. It is wrong to want something for yourself. The real, praiseworthy and honorable deed, is the [...]

There is such beauty in old age. It comes with the awareness of what is trivial in life, and the freedom of not having to pretend anymore that the trivialities are of great importance.