-2 days One of the kids is down. They tried to keep it together, but we knew something was off when they asked to move from the shadow into the sun on a 30°C+ day. We did the sensible thing, and all went to chill… Read More »The Covid Log
I left Barcelona a few years ago to live in a small village in the Spanish countryside.This is funny because I went full circle – I grew up in a village -> moved to a city (Hamburg) -> moved to a CITY! (Shanghai) -> moved… Read More »The Move 2018
Let’s face it; we will not be out of the crisis any time soon – if one of them might end, there will be plenty of others to meet. It also seems unlikely that something will magically fix it all. I didn’t write “we’ll fix… Read More »Crisis Galore – It’s normal not to be ok
Well, Buddhism attempts to end all suffering, and while I walk this path, I am not too optimistic that I’ll reach that point any time soon. Also, without suffering, there will still be pain, which isn’t my favourite either, and I am not yet at… Read More »To live is to suffer?
Yes, I am late to the outrage even though I had an opinion already about whether or not white people should wear dreadlocks. Here’s the quickest summary: Roja Maltzahn and her band the Blue Bird Orchestra were to play at the fff peace march in… Read More »The Fridays for future dreadlock gate
I am mad and sad – as always – madder and sadder than I have been for years. But the awful thing about the emotional hangover is that I feel helpless, hopeless, defeated, and weak. I know that I’ll be ok tomorrow or Tuesday, but… Read More »Emotional Hangover
mmmh, excuses are indeed easy. They are everywhere. Excuses are the low hanging fruit of life. Except that these fruits don’t nourish and do not satisfy, we need to keep reaching for them. They are so easy to get, so persuasive, they dangle in front… Read More »Excuses are easy
Here’s a recipe for this week’s Sunday cake: a tasty vegan apple cake but with preserved apples and without plant milk. It’s a variation of the vegan apple cake with fresh apples which was super yummy. For the dough – it’s enough for 1 cake… Read More »Vegan Apple Cake (with preserved apples)
You can find the original english version at the end of this article. Die Einladung Es interessiert mich nicht, wovon Du Deinen Lebensunterhalt bestreitest. Ich möchte wissen, wonach Du Dich sehnst und ob Du es wagst, davon zu träumen, Deine Herzenswünsche zu erfüllen. Es interessiert… Read More »Oriah Mountain Dreamer – Die Einladung/ the invitation
It’s mid-January and we are eating the last apples from the 2021 harvest. This is mainly a reminder for us so we’ll remember which ones were the best to store.What worked really well was to individually wrap them in paper. This way when they did… Read More »Apples from our own garden