Lingua franca

Deciding to change blog's language to English.
A language I love and use a lot.
For German friends, there will be comments, thoughts and native speaking/thinking.

For a start, the German version of my profile:

'Leben in interessanten Zeiten. Zwischen Garten und Office. Vorrat und Vision. Bücherregal und Schreibtisch. Zwischen Land und Stadt. Zwischen Geschichte und Morgen. Auf der Grenze. Auf der Schnittstelle. Jetzt. Und hier.'

Fall 2013

Back on this blog.

The last three years have been some sort of a rough ride.

Shifting. Away from collectives. Away from complexities.

Towards clarity, simplicity, serenity.

Let's see, what this means. Shall we?

Lichtmess 12 - Candlemas 12

"Ceremonies for Candlemas Eve"

DOWN with the rosemary and bays,
Down with the mistletoe ;
Instead of holly, now up-raise
The greener box (for show).

The holly hitherto did sway ;
Let box now domineer
Until the dancing Easter day,
Or Easter's eve appear.

Then youthful box which now hath grace
Your houses to renew ;
Grown old, surrender must his place
Unto the crisped yew.

When yew is out, then birch comes in,
And many flowers beside ;
Both of a fresh and fragrant kin
To honour Whitsuntide.

Green rushes, then, and sweetest bents,
With cooler oaken boughs,
Come in for comely ornaments
To re-adorn the house.

Thus times do shift; 
each thing his turn does hold ;
New things succeed, 
as former things grow old.

Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

Silvester 11

Ring Out, Wild Bells

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind,
For those that here we see no more,
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.

Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.

Ring out the want, the care the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes,
But ring the fuller minstrel in.

Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease,
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.

Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Mit 80 - Agenda 2051

Fit. Eingebunden. Klar. Gelassen.

Ein Sommer-Manifest

1. Draussen sein.
2. Bewegen.
3. Früh aufstehen.
   
4. Siesta halten.
   
5. Barfuss laufen.
6. Lesen & Lernen.
   
7. In die Klarheit kommen.
8. den Garten auskosten.
   
9. Dem Sommer nicht ausweichen. Der Sonne schon.
10. Kühle Getränke an schattigen Orten.
    
11. Glühwürmchen suchen.
12. Freundschaften pflegen.
13. Aus Wanderschaft gehen.
    
14. Sinn & Bilder suchen.
    
15. Auskosten.
    

Wachsen - Blühen - Reifen.

"Reclaiming Week"

Auszeit. Durchdenken. Aufarbeiten. Gut so.