The results of the May 14 election in Türkiye remind me of the fragments of a broken bowl. What do we do when a precious pot is broken? We don’t throw it away; we mend it. Mending requires more skill, patience, creativity and insight than originally required while making it from clay. The Japanese have a nam

Aşık olmak nedir? Biliyor muyduk ilk aşkımızdan önce? İzlediğimiz filmlerden, dinlediğimiz şarkılardan, duyduğumuz hikayelerden ve etrafımızda gözlemlediğimiz ilişkilerden, aşk konusunda, az buçuk bir fikrimiz vardı muhtemelen. Midemizde kelebeklerin uçabileceğini, aklımızı hayal ale

Did we know how it was to be in love before our first love? We had some idea about the feelings associated with being in love from the movies we watched, the love songs we listened to, the stories we heard and the relationships we observed around us. We knew that we might have butterflies in our stomach. We

Asbestos in the rubbles of the earthquakes is a great danger to public health. Since the earthquake on February 6th, the official death count in Türkiye has reached 50,399. Thousands upon thousands of people have been lost due to a natural catastrophe made so much worse by faulty buildings. Now asbestos, loose

Imagine being startled awake by a horrifying sound – like an explosion – followed by zipping jolts and literally falling into a new reality that you had no idea could exist before,  in which all the words you learned don’t mean what they used to mean.

How could we live an authentic life if we worry about the outcome of our actions and decisions all the time? Our desire is not for intermittent love but uninterrupted, unconditional love. Self-love – love within us – is without a beginning, without an ending. What is it that bridges the valleys between wani