213. It’s not really that long, and yet it’s felt like a short eternity. I didn’t know so much could happen in seven months. Seven months in a one-room apartment August-Bebel Straße 3, a basement in Unterer Wert. I came to know it as my home, just 6 weeks after my arrival here. It was … [Read More]
Naming the Stars
“Do you see that bright one? Good. Now look to the left, like at the 10 o’clock position… do you see the dim lights? There are two of them… now look up and to the right, there’s a cloudy shape…” Never in my life could I have expected this, but there we were nonetheless. Standing … [Read More]
Taizé, or places between Ancient Prayers and Sexy Kartoffelbrei
“You wouldn’t think that they go together, and that’s some of the beauty of it. These clay tubes that are plain and ordinary, that don’t even fit together in an organized fashion, can come together to be a thing of beauty.” She was right too. There were white cows everywhere. I knew they existed, but … [Read More]