An English Journey

"Unfinished India" is a personal favorite of mine. Photography is a tricky discipline not only from the point of view of the photographer but also from the viewer's. When I took this one I had to carefully choose the framing. There were infinite options and I decided to include the minimum amount of information needed to leave it open to interpretation . Half a cow, half a man and a pool of... To make an interpretation (artistic or not) is always extremely difficult. The aim of philosophers is to try and work out the best way to think about things. For all intents and purposes , we all try and work out how to think about things. A simple picture but also an existential question demands something more than mere observation . In this example, the most important element is neither the framing nor any included visual clue . Interpretation is what really counts. This post is entitled "Keep calm and take life philosophically ", a message not intended to be...

Six o’clock in the morning and your alarm clock went off . Last night, you did not sleep a wink , tossing and turning all night long. You felt wretched by those nagging problems. A pile of things to do awaited you at work. On the radio, the weather forecast did not look promising. To top it all , you remembered that the car has broken down. Obviously, your patience was wearing thin at 7 a.m. and you were on the brink of a nervous breakdown . About to quickly abandon your apartment, wishing not to exist, thinking why on earth you are on the receiving end of life... Suddenly, you stumble upon the boy next door. A gentle and broad smile spreads over his face and your dismal day is over. The smile healing powers have emerged. Smiling is also the universal language par excellence , a beautiful language shared by human beings, a gift from the gods and ultimately, a force to be reckoned with . However, all that glitters was not gold. According to a Scientific American colum...

No human being is perfect. I wonder what it was about my upbringing that made my mind restless and inquiring . I can ill afford slackness , except for catnaps (or as we say in Spain siestas), which as a general rule, I enjoy day in day out. I have a marked tendency to oversleep . It must be something deeply ingrained in my idiosyncrasy as three alarm clocks are not enough to wake me up in the morning.  I also have to openly confess that I do not believe in God, at least, not yet. My wife is always telling me that I cannot answer a simple question if it does not start with the word no. Am I a negative person? Or even worse, am I the type of person who never looks on the bright side (aka a pessimistic)? No, I do not personally think so.  Having strong, subjective or even dissenting opinions does not abolish the right to articulate my own ideas or beliefs. It is widely known as freedom of speech. I can understand that brief silence could sometimes be a be...