Month: October 2025

When a Comet Becomes a Mirror

The newly spotted ATLAS comet – possibly interstellar, possibly just another wanderer passing through – has stirred that old childhood nerve in me: the dream that one day something not‑from‑here would notice us. For years I imagined a scene of “first contact” with excitement, like humanity standing at the doorway of a larger reality. I […]

Germany as a Mirror of an Inner Schism

Someone asked on Reddit if there would be a Schism in Germany because of the liturgical abuses and more churchmen becoming pro-LGBTQ. In my opinion, what’s unfolding in Germany isn’t a crisis of the Church so much as a mirror of humanity’s inner conflict. Institutions, like individuals, evolve according to the beliefs that sustain them. […]

A Short Chain of Thoughts

Some days the mind wanders without asking permission. A piece of dust on the windowsill becomes a starting point. It is odd how something so insignificant survives every cleaning, every rearrangement of furniture, every attempt to impose order. Almost as if disorder is the natural state and our neatness is the exception we briefly impose […]

Buying a new swinging chair

We decided to buy an electric swinging chair for our baby. We cannot hold her all the time because she is getting heavier. I checked one out that we had found on Facebook Market Place but that one needs battery, which is not very convenient because we have to change the batteries all the time. […]