Stories, including a few quite crazy ones, from a long and eventful life. Driven by oneself, but now and then also - a late realization - guided by an invisible hand. The stories from the early, not so long ago, yet almost forgotten time show how much our world has changed in a very short period. After those tough, yet also bucolic years, new stages and continents emerged, not carefully planned, but rather flowing along with the current of time, and yet - also a late insight - a direction and a path gradually took shape. Finally, an attempt to categorize our very special time, marked by the great, epochal upheaval, the early signs of which Jean Gebser pointed out as early as the mid-20th century. Rising from the primal ground, it leaves no stone unturned, affecting us all, whether we...