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Walking along the banks of river Thames in central London, seeing the ever changing skyline fly by, discovering quirks along the way and discussing this and that. This is a routine for us.
My good friend M. and I have met at work at some stage of our careers. Doesn’t really matter at which corporate where-ness and when. Let’s just say we connected, kindred spirits and such had recognised each other. And though moving on and quitting jobs and changing our respective lives, we stayed in contact. And we have become accustomed to meeting up on a fortnight, sometimes only monthly. And we walk. And we chat.
During one of those talking walks, my friend told me a story I found hilarious.
Continue reading “Hope you speak Spanish!”Who is the Wandering Princess?
I first stumbled across this extraordinary character when staying in Venice for the Biennale.
Tucked away from tourist streams in a truly Venetian grand flat, I read about the San Michele cemetery island and its fascinating personalities buried there and ending their lives in a sometimes rather unexpected fashion.
Continue reading “Who is the Wandering Princess?”My Christmas buddy Howell
Howell is a little nothing. A little wooden frame of half an inch thickness. Not even twenty centimetres high. And then a little fluff of red and white of further textile body nothingness. And antlered with fragile red little tiny nothingness decoration.
Yet. Looks can be deceiving.
Continue reading “My Christmas buddy Howell”Bye bye Garden Bridge, hello Camden Highline!
Anyone remembering the high flying idea of the Garden Bridge over the Thames? For all non-Londoners: It was a private proposal for a pedestrian bridge over the Thames in London, the attraction was mainly designed as an uber-green play space across the river between Waterloo and Blackfriars bridges. Awesome!
Continue reading “Bye bye Garden Bridge, hello Camden Highline!”A New Glue for Society
Our humble roots are in hunting and gathering, and we need to re-program ourselves to respond to our rapid adoption of technology and automation. Linked is the relationship between women and men. The Marriage Concept is broken.
Continue reading “A New Glue for Society”Sober is the new drunk
“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
The infamous quote by notorious writer, sportsman and hard core drinker Ernest Hemingway sounds badass, witty, swanky. Aaah, so cool! Except that it isn’t.
Continue reading “Sober is the new drunk”Do you dare to ask him out or why don’t we talk to each other?
So here’s a tale I want to share with you. Let me reconstruct the scene. Sunny day, chairs outside in the garden, birds chirping. My sis and I during a heart-to-heart. No, not birds, I made that up.
Her: Why don’t you meet anyone?
Moi: Dunno.
Her: How about dating?
Moi: Yes, I’d love to.
Her: Soooo, how about …
Continue reading “Do you dare to ask him out or why don’t we talk to each other?”Action-ism totally gone wrong or what’s a good decision?
Look at The Terminator or better the target of his wrath in the first movie of the epic sequel.
There the android terminator is sent from the future to kill the mother (Sarah O’Connor) of the resistance leader (John O’Connor) who is fighting the dominance of the machines in a dark future version of human existence.
We all know that those machines didn’t get anywhere with this mission but what’s even worse for them if you think about it: The machines created the problem in the first place.
Read on →Who is Cornelia Goethe?
Cornelia Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s sister, was a gifted writer, we hear. But she died in childbed, 26 years old. Trapped in an unhappy marriage she despised. While her brother was free to roam the world, choose as partner whom he wanted and lived to rise to one of Germany’s most accredited poets.
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