How unconditional can love be?
Tijn Touber | June 2004 issue
It happened again. I fell in love. And as I felt the butterflies fluttering about in my stomach I asked myself: “Is this true love?” I have to say there was some doubt in my mind because, as wise men always tell us, true love is Read More...
archery offers lessons for daily life
Paulo Coelho | June 2004 issue
Over the past 15 years I remember experiencing overwhelming passion on only a few occasions. It happened when I abandoned my typewriter, bought a computer and discovered a new freedom. (I am writing this in another city on another Read More...
How I get to know myself -- and the world -- thanks to art
Adam Wolpert | June 2004 issue
We feel the changing relationships among people and between people and nature are at the core of our modern problems. How that relationship can be restored is an ongoing theme in Ode. In Resurgence, a valuable Read More...
Bill Drayton was aware at a young age that some people are capable of changing the world. He founded Ashoka, an international organisation that empowers and financially supports social entrepreneurs.
Marco Visscher and Tijn Touber | June 2004 issue
As is often the case, it started with his parents. Read More...
Low body temperature may be a sign of a weakened immune system. Healing begins with a thermometer.
David A. and Sara Koch Jernigan | June 2004 Read More...
Winters are long and dark in northern Finland, but reindeer herdsmen are happy to live there. "This is where I find freedom," says one. Heidi Bradner photographed the Nenet people.
Heidi Bradner | June 2004 Read More...