Simply Better Living

Intimacy After 60: Why Closeness Still Matters — Perhaps More Than Ever Because growing older does not mean growing distant There is a quiet assumption that settles in somewhere around our fifties or sixties. It goes something like this: that part of life is behind us now. We may not say it out loud. But it shows up in small ways. We stop reaching for each other quite so often. We let routines replace attention. We accept a kind of affectionate companionship, but leave intimacy to memory. And yet, if you speak honestly to people in long relationships, whether heterosexual or gay, a different reality emerges. The desire for closeness does not disappear. What changes is how it is kindled. It’s rarely “just age” When intimacy fades, it is tempting to blame the calendar.  But more often than not, the real causes are quieter and closer to home. A partner comes in tired, carrying the day like a heavy coat. Conversations become practical: bills, appointments, what’s for dinner. Evenings d...

How a nasty accident led to a better life In August 2020, I fell off my bike after hitting a high curb on a bridge in East Berlin and injured myself badly. A young Indian student who happened to be passing by went to great lengths to help me. When I insisted on carrying on with my journey to visit my daughter, he gave me his phone number and asked me to contact him in the next few days to let him know I was alright. When I wrote to him later, he invited me to visit his research centre, where he was working on his doctorate in  DNA sequencing . The location was impressive, right in the city centre — even the main staircase of the building was designed in the shape of a double helix. Discovering Ayurveda Our conversation in the rooftop café that evening turned to health in general, and it was there that I first heard about  Ayurveda . Curious, I began reading, and was struck by the overlap with  plant-based nutrition and veganism . If you’d like an introduction, I can recom...

Simply Better Living. Especially when we are healthy, life is a beautiful gift. A true miracle, by all standards.  We human beings are constellations of atoms, stardust re-assembled, hurtling around our sun on a rock at 67,000 mph. DNA coils like ancient runes in every cell, issuing silent instructions: become, live, persist.  From this choreography comes breath, thought, memory: a mother’s laughter, longing for distant places, a lover’s hand in the dark. We invent spaceships, build cathedrals, write poems, grieve and love. All this from fragile molecules wrapped in skin. Just chemistry. And yet: is it not a miracle that matter dreams at all? In this blog, I'd like to share with you my experience of living better, simply. I will build my lifestyle suggestions on the five key foundations of: food and diet sleep and rest sport and exercise relaxation and mindfulness / devotion social connection  They will be simple and easy to achieve for every age and every fitness level....