Last week a friend gave me a guitar. One of these friends that comes and goes like summer. Ever so warm, like a short vacation from your life, a place for that brutal honesty that we reserve for complete strangers.…
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Wishful thinking
Is there still such a thing as magic? Many denies it, others exaggerate it to insanity, and those left most possibly completely misinterprete it – include me here. Yet I believe. I believe in something that goes beyond our comprehension,…
Sakura blossoms in October
The evening ends in a packed tram train filled with at least a hundred German youths drunk on beer and sangria. Filled with that drunken expectation and excitement that they might get to kiss a stranger tonight they scream to…
Last call for Magdeburg
There are six of us in our little research group – three postdocs, two Phds and one professor – whose professional relationship has developed more into sweet domestic family life.Highest in our rather flat hierarchy is our hippie professor. He…
Back from the New World
I am back in the Old World, back in Europe, back in Germany, back to the apartment that I most recently call home. In my ears my ambient-electronic Spotify playlist is pumping Asura’s Atlantic Child. It is powerful, dreamy, strong,…
Fishy food
A few days ago I experienced perhaps the most laughable moment in a long time. As a result of stress, too many feelings and confusing impression in a too short a time I had a hysterically funny experience while sitting…
Dangerous impressions in Brazil
I have so much I want to say about my time here in Brazil. Impressions that needs to be processed, re-experienced in memory and in writing. A deep desire to capture these feelings in writing or in painting, preserved and…
Beautiful people
Being at a summer school in the end of the Brazilian winter (says a lot about hemispheric hierarchy) I get the rare opportunity to see a limited number of strangers repeatedly for a couple of days. With the exception of…
Breakfast in paradise
Life is pretty sweet at the moment. I am sitting in the hotel lobby / restaurant area eating breakfast. The buffet is filled with exotic fresh fruit, juice, coffee, dozens of cakes and bread. It is very early and calm…
Celebrity nudity – a real thing!
Lately there has been a lot of fuzz going on about some leaked celebrity nudes and I must say that I am quite chocked at the cultural development. My first thought was: who is stupid enough to put nude pictures online? Somehow…