An Excuse Isn’t an Excuse

The best excuse will always be the one that comes with an acceptable reason and at least some degree of regret.

© Dominik Alexander / 2026

It’s a Language Game

We ask whether experience shapes the self or the self shapes experience. But the question borrows its certainty from a grammar that divides what our lives do not.

© Dominik Alexander / 2026

My Pigeon Week

For a week, I’d like to be a pigeon. Because, linguistically speaking, pigeons are closely related to surgeons.

© Dominik Alexander / 2026

Within Twenty Years

Talking with each other instead of talking about each other could seem like a whole new technology in twenty years.

© Dominik Alexander / 2026

Des Menschen Kern

Was hat es mit des Menschen Kern
Dass er sich stets verstellt
Und jedem Menschen eine andre Maske zeigt
Ganz so wie er erscheinen will

© Dominik Alexander / 2026

The Book of Life

An actual physical book I only read once. But the book of life I read every day.

© Dominik Alexander / 2026