Panta rei

"Panta rei", literally everything flows, sums up Heraclitus' philosophy, and means that everything is constantly changing, from the smallest grain of sand to the stars in the sky. Thus, every object ultimately is a figment of one's imagination. Only change itself is real, constant and eternal flux, like the continuous flow of the river which always renews itself.

The name of my blog site shows I relate to this. Changes are many, continuous and fast, and there is no keeping up with blogging. In the past month I have been in Republic of Georgia (Caucasus), Istanbul, Geneva and Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan). Now taking a breath in Ankara before moving on. I promise over the next few days to post a short visual impression of each of these places.

My second "Turkish Delight" (see my first blog for the first series) is a picture that I took last week of a shopwindow in Ankara showing side to side 'western' women clothes as well as fashionable outfits that go with headscarf. The headscarf is winning terrain in urban areas in Turkey; it is a also growing trend that these two styles go hand in hand, and relatively new that you find both in the same shop.

Our weeping philosopher Heraclitus, native of Ephesus (Efes) on the west coast of Asia Minor (nowadays Turkey), had he seen this, would he have smiled?

Until soon!