Alan Jacobs: Those of us who care about the future of our children, our neighbors, and ourselves don’t need to repeat what everyone already knows. We need to devote our full attention to one question and one question only: How do we love rightly and teach others to love rightly? If that’s not our constant […]
Author: Fabian
What I Might Want to Remember
What You Should Know About Broccoli Sandwiches
I stumbled about this post a few months ago and added it to my 50 or so open Safari tabs. As I rarely eat eggs anymore, time passed. But then, this weekend, I suddenly found myself with a bunch of eggs in my fridge and not much else to cook. Broccoli being a favorite of […]
Still Working on Trains
Ever since moving to the island, my travel times within Germany have vastly expanded. Living close to the Danish border, even a simple trip to Hamburg will take about four hours. Four hours with no wi-fi, bad cellphone coverage and little distractions in a beautiful, but flat and repetitive landscape: The perfect place to get […]
“In the face of the increasingly materialist and pragmatic orientation of our age … it would not be eccentric in future to contemplate a society in which those who live for the pleasures of the mind will no longer have the right to demand their place in the sun. The writer, the thinker, the dreamer, […]