Heart, soul or mind: which do I trust when they seem to point in different directions? The short line below holds that uncertainty rather than resolving it. It is a personal question about choosing when none of my usual guides feels completely clear. I do not have a neat answer in this line. That is what I want to leave visible: the gap between wanting certainty and having to choose. Sometimes naming the doubt is the honest beginning of a conversation, even before I know where it will lead.
And if even the heart is wrong and the soul, too – then for sure I can’t trust my mind about what to do.
A reader challenged how I spoke about Albanian identity. I agreed that I could approach the conversation more gently.
·2 min read↗
Letters from Valon
Love well. Live your values. Carry our roots forward.
One honest story and one useful action every two weeks. Read Letters from Valon in English, Albanian or German.
Manage Consent
This site uses necessary cookies to work. With your permission, Google Analytics helps me understand which pages people read. Embedded videos may also use third-party cookies. You can accept, reject optional cookies, or choose your preferences, and change your choice at any time.
Functional
Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
