Parents in the XXI century (EN)

She was born when I was 54 years old. Never a child has been more welcome. She is not a child any more. She is an "adolescente". I should not know what she does with her friends, girls and boys. But I do. Not by what she tells me, but by what I see, by what I feel.
We will share more than two weeks of togetherness in the insects-infested Dobri Dol house.
We promised each other during the 200 Kms car ride from Sofia, that we would try to make this very last togetherness during summer, a success.
We did. My girl is in a turmoil. I know that she will choose the right way. But sometimes, she is lost.
A twenty-first century parent is there, to help. If helping is permitted.
Please, dear daughter, let me help.
I know that I can be of some help to You...
Papa

Shana en Scène (Tennessee Williams à Bohissaux, Belgique) [FR]

Samedi, le 5 février 2011. L'endroit improbable de Bohissaux, perdu dans les collines négligées de la fière Ville d'Andenne. ni namuroise, ni partie de Huy, et encore moins de Liège.S'il était simplement à nous? À nous, ses habitants? Bon, c'est une discussion différente.

Mon beau-frère Paul, sans que je ne le sache au début, accompagne ma fille Shana au chemin de son éclosion d'actrice.

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Holocaust education is to encourage reflection, not to encourage a taboo [EN]

Walther Rathenau was a philosopher, businessman and minister of foreign affairs in the early Weimar Republic. He was also a Jew.He would now be classified as a Liberal Conservative or a right Social Democrat. All the same, many reasons for revanchists, anti-Semites, PI-ler, Mafiosis und Ulfkotte-people to hate him. So much so that he was murdered in 1922 by three so-called Fememörderern with a hand grenade.

He makes the difference between predetermined conclusions  from superficial analogies from history (or the collective memories) on one hand and, on the other hand, the enlightened thinking, not  the based upon stories attached to prejudice, but engaged to comparison with what is now happening. Stating: 

Denken heißt Vergleichen In short: To think is to compare

What we get to hear now too often in the debates about the supposedly necessary exclusion of potential terrorists and enemies of the Enlightenment in "our West", are the prejudiced conclusions of "the" History.
But, THE history does not exist. Only stories do exist. Narratives that communicate what people think or thought that woul be important.

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