Twenty-Eighteen

This was quite something. Thinking about it and going over last year’s events, I’m not quite sure how all of it ever fit into one year. As I’m writing this, I’m sitting on a red couch with a piano nearby while the wind is blowing outside, I just had some tea and mini pizzas, and,… Continue reading Twenty-Eighteen

Eleven rainbows: Melbourne in Winter 2017

This is a diary of my time in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, containing musings, thoughts, notes written down in June and July 2017. Edited in August 2017 and February 2018. The number of rainbows is true and something else; everything else is as true as you need it to be.  Day 1 A bird on a… Continue reading Eleven rainbows: Melbourne in Winter 2017

January 2018

Found The dog A better understanding Shells Stones Sticks Not what I was looking for Wrote About 2017 What are you so afraid of? – In Pastry Box Project Postcards Half a notebook full of late-night & insomnia notes Overheard or said “I accidentally hit him with my pineapple.” “Are you fighting the coconut again?” Read… Continue reading January 2018

Bats

I grew up in a small village somewhere in the countryside, in an area of rivers, hills, small forests, and castles. Scattered all over the region around the small village were even smaller villages, often made up of just one, two, three farms, some of them abandoned for many years already. Many hills around the smaller villages were… Continue reading Bats

A brightness, a view, a poem: Porto in Winter 2017

Musings, thoughts, music, notes. Written down over the course of a few days in December 2016 and January 2017, while meandering through Porto, Portugal. Prologue I get home to a freezing cold flat at 9pm. Two hours, some laundry, dinner, a phone call, one unpacked and another packed bag later, I go to bed. Six hours later,… Continue reading A brightness, a view, a poem: Porto in Winter 2017

Having no more dreams, but trash fires, bagels, and questions about dogs and morals: January 2017

Found The BEST dog: Wrote “I’m not sure if it’s a good sign that I recognised this place just from the furniture.” “I know this dog.” Watched (or saw) Two performances I’ll never forget (and both for their very own reasons) A tiny mountain range in ice on a table Rogue One, twice Someone with… Continue reading Having no more dreams, but trash fires, bagels, and questions about dogs and morals: January 2017

Patches of Light: Helsinki in December

Observations, music, thoughts, musings, written down over the course of eight days in December 2016 while meandering through Helsinki, Finnland. Preamble Still the rush of an intense day and a stressful trip to the airport inside of me (one of those times when you don’t know if you’ll make it in time), I sit back… Continue reading Patches of Light: Helsinki in December

12 Days of Summer – Melbourne in November 2016

Observations, music, thoughts, notes, written down under over the course of 12 days in November & December 2016 while meandering through Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Jetlag, maybe, and something about cloves When abroad, my general rule is: everything that’s within a distance I can walk, I will walk. So I walk to the place I want to… Continue reading 12 Days of Summer – Melbourne in November 2016

It was about time // Copenhagen and Malmö, 2016

Observations, notes, thoughts, music from a short trip to Copenhagen and Malmö in summer 2016. Ramblings written down while hanging out in hotel beds, strolling around, or riding boats and trains; because everything needs to go somewhere. Day 1 It was about time that I left. I almost didn’t go. It was about time and distance.… Continue reading It was about time // Copenhagen and Malmö, 2016

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