Timeless: What survives?

Saturday 16 May 2026 Room 203, Old City Boutique Hotel, Tbilisi, Georgia Above: Old City Boutique Hotel, Tbilisi It is late in the evening. Despite my fatigue I find myself musing over the past (How did I get here?) and the future (Where am I going?) while perhaps not fully appreciating the present moment. “There… Continue reading Timeless: What survives?

Of a jazz that I feel

Above: Composition for Jazz, Albert Gleizes (1915), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City Eskişehir, Türkiye Wednesday 24 July 2024 Last Sunday evening at Starbucks with a new student after my classes at the school have ended. He is an educated man, a well-seasoned man, despite being half my age. Not that unusual. But to… Continue reading Of a jazz that I feel

Pendik possibilities

Above: Images of Pendil, Istanbul, Türkiye Beyoğlu, İstanbul, Türkiye Sunday 7 April 2024 “Yesterday I spoke to playwright and humourist Karlweis about keeping a diary. He said it was good to get into the habit of reckoning up with yourself, but that one never confronts oneself with the whole truth, there is always an element… Continue reading Pendik possibilities