Memorials Memorials to the victims of the holocaust, thoughtfully and carefully created to evoke emotion and thought. Museums Fancy artifacts and paintings in beautiful buildings that tourists will talk about for the rest of their lives as the most fascinating event of their week in Berlin, lots and lots of tourists. Freud Meets Schmitzle At […]
Met this man at the café. He’s walked around Europe looking for peace. Said his heart was broken in East Germany. 30% are racist and 70% don’t care. He’s been walking for 30 years, since the wall fell. Never turn away from a houseless person, he said. He said it had been 30 years and […]
Formal(ish) Analysis The Puddler, 1890, Constantine Meunier (1831 – 1905) Of course I was struck by you. I’m struck by all of you. You’re on a pedestal so that I look right at you. Right in the eyes. Normally I look at you from above. What would it be like to look at you from […]
Mini Work Space Brian Ladd, “The Ghosts of Berlin, Berlin Walls.” One wall, one people divided. Two systems, one circumstance, two situations. Two reactions, two outcomes. Freedom encourages art, art encourages inquiry, inquiry leads to resistance, resistance leads to resilience. Resilience might be our number one stem against psychological ailments. Totalitarianism makes wall disease. Disease […]
Mini Work Space, Maxi Good Times Kleine Liste: Benjamin, W., & Kafka, F. (1968). On the Tenth Anniversary of His Death. Illuminations: Essays and Reflections, 164. Beyond the Mother Tongue: The Postmonolingual Condition – Yasemin Yildiz – Google Books. (n.d.). Retrieved April 11, 2019, from https://books.google.de/books?hl=en&lr=&id=RPx5XSWVXTIC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=the+uncanny+mother+tongue&ots=rrm7aUZyan&sig=KmfSQikcEFj22HGEFhdhnyCvvUs#v=onepage&q=the%20uncanny%20mother%20tongue&f=false Erpenbeck, J. (2017). Go, went, gone. New York: New Directions Publishing […]
Introduction of schedule (1 minute) 20 connected breaths x 2 (4 minutes): A quick, accessible, teachable breathing technique that is centering and grounding. There are a multitude of videos online that teach it, but here’s a link to one with a beautiful woman who has a European accent (maybe German?) in case you’d like to […]
I was delighted when my host mama, Barbara invited me to join her for this demonstration for housing rights. I was so moved by the spirit, music, good vibes. Olympia and other protests are increasingly aggressive. Hostility at protests decreases tolerance levels from sympathizing domiciled residents’. I’m not against aggressive direct action movements. However, I think […]