Buy or DIY
I bought this birthday card for my aunt: Then I thought: No! And made this one: Birthdays are a great opportunity to practice some collage skills. Want to do this more often. Who is the next one?
Autor: Carmen Radeck
Vampires on the Train
Instead of listening to my current favourite travel music album (Roisin Murphy: Roisin Machine) I couldn’t resist secretly joining the two girls sitting in front of me watching an episode of The Vampire Diaries. What I liked about them was the way they talked about the characters as if they were a part of their real lives, like boys and girls at school. They seemed really connected to them.
Building a story
Today I did something I haven’t done for quite a while. Which is astonishing because it’s my profession and the thing I’m good at. And I had forgotten how much fun it is. Building a story in my head from the material I had collected. Using the words told to me by my interviewees. How to tell it in a way that is fun and human and joyful and maybe a little exciting and surprising. […]
Disorganised but happy
Last year was a year of big decisions for me. One of them was to give up my career as a self-employed PR journalist. The problem with my decisions is that as soon as I make them they are done for me. So I’m in that state of mind, but there are still all these unsexy things to do, like deregistering my business and doing all this admin stuff. And then all of a sudden […]
Astonishing moment
Question for you: What was the most astonishing moment for you today? Mine was that: After one of my colleagues showed her cute baby cat in our daily online team meeting, another colleague showed his beloved pet: a big-eyed black and white guinea pig. I had not expected that.
Let go of control
I really like this idea of surrender and letting go of control. Found this quote by Henry Miller that sums up exactly this phenomenon: When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. I am very certain now that… if I truly become what I wish to be, the burden will fall away. The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize […]
One of those mondays …
… that already feels like a Thursday.
This weekend: Calming, grounding, inspiring
This weekend was particularly calming, grounding and inspiring. Calming and grounding: Long walks in the morning and late afternoon with my partner and our dog in places we don’t often walk. Grounding: We watched „Nomadland“ for the first time on Saturday. After watching the film, I felt a bit anxious, especially thinking about getting older and being alone. Interestingly, this (Sunday) morning I read a quote by Gabor Maté: „Safety is not a question of […]
Walking when the sun goes down
I love the mood and atmosphere of a walk between afternoon and evening right before the sun goes down. It’s such a quieting feeling with the promise of coming home and rest.
If it’s not Covid, it’s this other thing
The funny thing since the pandemic is that whenever there is a conglomeration of random symptoms (which I don’t remember happening before Covid), my first reaction is to do a Covid test. So I did this week and as usual it was negative. As a woman of 48 now, I’m pretty sure of the real reasons… And it reminded me of another unfinished thing from 2022: reading the excellent book by Sheila de Liz „Woman […]