Who needs Paradise? Heaven on earth is so much more fun. More tangible, more accessible, above all more doable. It’s up to us. We see what we expect to see. Optimism and good cheer become a matter of attitude. So we focus on the positive things, lust for life, desire to create. Suddenly the world be…

What sorts of things arouse our interest, trigger our desires, shape our passion? Not the ideal or the perfect, and certainly not the ordinary or conformist. Sometimes it is an apparent flaw that determines whether something is attractive or not. The deliberately missing piece. The predetermined bre…

The inspiration came from the bookshelf. Because we just can’t resist a book titled “Sex and Art and Chocolate”. At least that’s the German translation. Originally titled, How Pleasure Works, the book promises to tell us “why we like what we like”. We in turn promised everyone we’d be back in two da…