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Time Makes a Point.
Time itself doesn't care when things end. It has no emotions, only seconds, minutes, hours and so on.
6 hrs ago • Christian Wehrli
Why Is This Element So Sour?
First, the question of blame. Who has annoyed this element so thoroughly that its permanent condition is described as sour?
Jul 11 • Christian Wehrli
Some like it hot!
The club of heat enthusiasts is shrinking. Faster than expected. Europe is sweating as never before. June 2026 delivered the most sweltering heat wave…
Jul 10 • Christian Wehrli
White Elders. Elder Whites.
Older people have enormous amounts of experience. Why? The likely reason: they've had considerably more time to gather a fair bit of wisdom.
Jul 9 • Christian Wehrli
Let's Talk About "Whelmed"
Language is a word factory that never closes. Words rarely die. At most, they retire. Language lives on creation.
Jul 8 • Christian Wehrli
Come on, Sense!
Every single bristle-strand lashed my face. From both sides, from above and behind, a torrent of water cascaded onto my body in sheets. My face…
Jul 8 • Christian Wehrli
Stranger Things.
Whoever ventures into the foreign sees more of life. So said some one of those countless voices from the folk wisdom tradition.
Jul 6 • Christian Wehrli
What You Will
When we all play our roles, but slip a little? Then life becomes a comedy. At least according to Shakespeare. He knew how to send roles into a skid.
Jul 5 • Christian Wehrli
Empire Unleashed.
The day was already muggy, but still unspent, at five in the morning. With half-open eyes I see two people dressed in black standing high up on the…
Jul 4 • Christian Wehrli
Carefreefish
Someone in one of the departments of evolutionary theory had a vague idea in mind. It had to be a fish. A swimming, pointy creature that loves the…
Jul 3 • Christian Wehrli
For and Against. Again and Again.
Running full tilt in one direction, wind at your back, completely caught up in it — and then walking face-first into a wall.
Jul 2 • Christian Wehrli
Democracy — You're a Pain!
Canada accepted me when I was an older man. Because I wanted it — and because Canada allows for that.
Jul 1 • Christian Wehrli
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