18 Mar
Gingerbread in Lent? May seem strange, but in the Salzkammergut, for Laetare, the fourth Sunday of Lent, it’s the tradition. On that day, the so-called Liebstattsonntag, good Christians originally had received permission to “show their love” for their brethren by feeding the poor, a custom that later changed into the exchange of gingerbread hearts as [...]
21 Oct
When the proponents of personal growth call on everyone to go travel, a big part of the notion – beside the idea that travel will make you worldly – is the creation of memories which feed your sense of a life story. All too often nowadays, we don’t get much of any feeling of growth, [...]
5 Sep
Italy. Bella Italia! Part of the Grand Tour, promised land of the German mind, home of good food and people passionate – not just about la dolce vita but even about dolce far niente (the sweet life and sweet doing nothing). Furthermore, as a major source of European culture – and simply a neighboring country [...]
11 Jul
Spent a few days in Riga, Latvia, recently (just before the Bergmarathon) with people from Arche Noah and Pro Specie Rara for a Grundtvig project to exchange experiences with eco-agriculture and such. Will have to see about a little report on that, for one or the other of my blogs/sites, but wanted to share these [...]
Between "work" and "life," "humanity" and "nature," "us" and "them," we are ever more like tourists just visiting this world - and indeed this one life we have for sure.
High time we come to be at home.
…, Or: The Best Habit Is a Tool Convenience. It is our time’s great guideline. And it’s what makes us live ever more on this world, like tourists just visiting, rather than truly at home in this world. Even “lifehackers,” who seem the best example of people who still want to learn more when they [...]
“I’m not impressed.” It is easily the ugliest modern attitude that gets expressed by this phrase. As an attempt at coolness and aloofness that does not result in any of the freedom that a certain distance from the humdrum world could provide, it is nothing but proving that you are not really engaged in this [...]
The age of adventure, the era of explorers – it all seems a thing of the past. Now, the best you can do is action sports and extreme travel – but there’s a big difference: The earlier explorers didn’t quite know what they were getting themselves into, and went to the white spots on the [...]
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