• Pushing the States to the Negotiating Table

    In Helsinki at this time of year, the sun rises just after 9am and sets again at 3pm. Our Finnish hosts told us that we were lucky that the snow had come already, to lighten up the all-pervading darkness by reflecting what little light there is. Already, after only a short time, the snow was…

  • Destroyed Islands

    50th anniversary of last atmospheric nuclear test “Tightrope” Fifty years ago today, “Tightrope” the last of 215 US atmospheric nuclear tests took place. This was the final blast in one of the worst chapters in nuclear history that began sixty years ago, on November 1st 1952, when the first hydrogen bomb was tested on an…

  • che

    che

    Che, our cat.

  • back

    back

    after the flood

  • bees!

    bees!

    Bees on flowers in our garden

  • uranus

    uranus

    20 x 20 cm, acrylics on canvas

  • The Bay

    At my age a thought starts to emerge like a small moth flapping at the window: what will it be like to age, to die? It is not a great age, fifty-one, but it is an age where one can speak of experience. More than half a century to look back on, five times older…

  • fidel

    fidel

    Fidel, our cat

  • taurus

    taurus

    20 x 20 cm, acrylic on canvas

  • spring

    spring

    spring flowers