Letting go of warm summer days. Watching the leaves change colour, fall from the tree, get carried away by the wind. Raindrops. Morning mist. Darkness. Slowing down, preparing for the oncoming winter. A time of stillness, of pausing, of introspection. Shedding the unnecessary. Cosy autumn days. Basking in the golden sunlight. Reminiscing about the year…
Category: Everyday Life
Herbsttage
Die Melancholie des Herbstes. Loslassen der warmen Sommertage. Zuschauen, wie die Blätter Farbe wechseln und vom Baum fallen. Einen Gang runterschalten, sich auf den nahenden Winter vorbereiten. Zeit der Stille, des Innehaltens, der Reflexion. Abstreifen des Überflüssigen. Zur Ruhe kommen, Revue passieren. Spaziergänge im herbstlichen Wald, die Kronen fangen Feuer. Letzte Sonnenstrahlen wärmen das Gesicht….
Hug
noun [hʌɡ]: embrace, sign of affection, safe place. when is the last time you hugged someone? like, really hugged someone. not a half-hearted hug, a side hug, a virtual hug or a pat-on-the-back kind of hug. a real, genuine hug. like a bear hug, for example, an I’ll-hold-you-tight-and-never-let-go hug, a so-nice-to-see-you hug, a you’ll-be-ok hug,…
random moments
when you get back to a book you’d left untouched for a while and think «oh, she’s still there» (meaning the heroine on the top of the mountain) first sip of coffee – that aaahhh moment when a song starts to play that describes that instant perfectly laughing so hard you can already see the…
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Uff. Wow. What a year. Ups and downs and the world turned upside down. At the beginning of the year, in my post «Looking back», I wrote that I wanted to come to rest for a while. I didn’t know how soon that wish would actually come true. If 2019 was the year of travelling,…
Half a year
It’s been half a year since they announced the lockdown in Switzerland. Last Monday, exactly half a year after my return home, I started university. Half a year. Time flies. So much has happened. So much didn’t take place. It’s incredible how one’s life can change in the course of only half a year. If…
Back to “normal”
These past few weeks, Switzerland has been slowly finding its way back to “normality”. Restaurants are serving food again, museums and zoos have opened their doors and restrictions like the 5-people-rule have been eased. There are more cars and people in the streets again, reclaiming public spaces. Although this crisis isn’t bound to be over…
my skin tells a story
My skin tells a story all the cracks and wrinkles the freckles and birthmarks the scar on my right knee from when I fell running down a hill My skin tells a story of laughter and pain bad times and good moments the sun caressing my shoulders the gentle massage of my grandma’s hands My…
To declutter
I came home with a backpack I’d been carrying around for half a year, having survived with only its contents, even lost certain objects on the way. Back home to my old room and a suitcase and boxes and bags full of stuff. Needless to say, I felt pretty overwhelmed by all the clutter awaiting…