Essays & Art
It was a perfect summer. I was staying at an extraordinary abode in South France, at the holiday-house-slash-mansion of a friend.
We had met at work. She used to be my boss when I was working at a London based software company. It was a girls-only weekend away and we discussed every little bit of our lives. What we admitted to be uncovered, that was.
Continue reading “The Age of Vulnerability”Power is not given to you. You have to take it.
– Beyoncé –
My eyes firmly fixated on the buildings around me, I am usually walking through London ready to discover this fascinating city’s quirks along the way. On one of those days, I ended up in Primrose Hill, in a 1920s villa housing a cultural temple for English Folk Dance.
Continue reading “A Love Story ❤️”
I quit my corporate job in London in March 2020.
Corona hit. I bought an old camper van together with a friend. We started our journey from Berlin to Southern Europe in search for inspirational places to live and to work remotely. And to maybe start a business hosting digital nomads. All was open and in the air. Exciting times!
Continue reading “Satsang & Surfing”
Did you see what Brad Pitt did with his perfect home-slash-villa in the Southern part of France at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat? Yes, exactly that spot where the pink coloured serene and arty Villa “Ephrussi de Rothschild” and its lush gardens are located. Extraordinarily beautiful!
What an amazing home, isn’t it?
Continue reading “What makes you feel at home?”
I was raised in a Catholic environment. A small village in Southern Germany with a church forming its centre and a chapel with a mysterious crypt as eternal deathbed for our gentry. Those feudal countryside masters left our village in the 19th century and if I remember correctly, their heritage line died out shortly after. Almighty God’s will or random coincidence?
Continue reading “Beyond The Seven Deadly Sins”Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt.
Happiness is never grand.
– Mustapha Mond, World Controller, in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley –