We hadn t planned that walk. We had never planned anything. It happened and other times it didn t. We had intended just to sit for a while, watch the birds dive or swoop across the surface, but somehow we started to discuss religion and politics, and as always I was the one listening and Karla talked. I m sorry, Lisa. I guess it s because I rarely have a chance to talk. When I m with him I barely get the chance to talk. Somewhere between Heidegger and the role of Lothar Spath in the collapse of the Christian Democrats-led government in one of the Southern states of Germany she told me, that...

We hadn't planned that walk. We had never planned anything. It happened and other times it didn't. We had intended just to sit for a while, watch the birds dive or swoop across the surface, but somehow we started to discuss religion and politics, and as always I was the one listening and Karla talked. 'I'm sorry, Lisa. I guess it's because I rarely have a chance to talk. When I'm with him I barely get the chance...to talk.' Somewhere between Heidegger and the role of Lothar Spath in the collapse of the Christian Democrats-led government in one of the Southern states of Germany she told me,...

The boy was fascinated by theatre. He was intrigued by new places and by new journeys, from a very young age.
He was always full of mischievous ideas. His head was full of noises, and only the theatre could calm him, pull his restless mind into a single story, make him listen and give shape to his dreams. The boy loved everything about theatre, and even after sixty years, he still does.
The boy grew up cushioned by the voice of his father, which was wrapped around vowels and consonants and arranged in fascinating configurations.
When he was very small, his father often read...