Diaries
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Laughing at the world
The theater of our lives moves from one setting to another, one act begets the next and it passes with incomprehensibly, never earning that much needed hesitation, to reflect on the meaning of what you just experienced. During the Covid lockdown I was a good little girl nestled at home with my dog and my…
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Drive Along the U1
I like moving along the U1, by foot, by bike, by overground, or car. The U1 runs from the eastern terminus of Warschauerstrasse, to the western most stop named Kurfürstendamm. It is seen by some as the “party train” – with stops that that include the epi-centers of the Berlin gay nightlife, the punk-centers, and…
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Beautifully layered Creature Drawing
I found this! It’s a lovely use of an OpenFrameworks piece. It’s by an artist called Electronaut from Berlin.
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Growing Along with a Body of Water
I have traversed this grandest of Berlin’s lakes a thousand times, if I were counting. It has almost 7km of lakeshore which can be walked or done by bike. I know all of it contours – I have memorized all the bends in the paths along its shore . I have come to know the…
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Connecting with a stranger on a terrace
Yes, it was a Friday afternoon, and I was freshly groomed after my fancy hair salon appointment. Afterwards, I made a date to meet a stranger. We met at a restaurant that sits impressively atop a second floor terrace within a large “hof“, next to a busy street in Kreuzberg, Bergmann Strasse. The stranger, that…
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A Friday afternoon in July
Picked up my sun-tanned buddy in the city, who just hiked several weeks one of the longest trails in Sweden. We stopped in Nollendorfplatz for my favorite place to get a Cortado. Note they do not appear on the menu. We ate octopus tapas on Golzstrasse, with my friend anxious to tell her road trip…