Late autumn flowers between Bavaria and Berlin ease our sorrow for ugly US elections and worrying results.
We will see what this all will bring, we know ahnt least: `there is work to come` for us who remain at unease.
Let us convincingly fight for better outcomes here in Berlin, locally!
https://www.maag-moments.ch/maag/de/events/event/detail/2024/leonardo-da-vinci.html
Commuting from Berlin to Zurich by train takes approx. 8 hours, worth a visit again!
October 2024 showed https://www.maag-moments.ch/maag/de/events/event/detail/2024/leonardo-da-vinci.html
Walking home along Audre-Lorde-street in Berlin Kreuzberg feels so right!
… wandering what these young women near Omar Ibn al-Khattab Mosque might think about?
Audre Lorde and her much younger soul sister May Ayyim would have, eventually, discussed black – African and German identity while walking there to confront white male dominance …?
Brandenburg`s Stonegate Tower – der Steintorturm – stands for a 15th Century monument housing a museum landscape along the river Havel today. Fishing and crafts had been part of the local past, and remain such until today’s artisanal activities in a region employing more than a million out of 2.5 mid inhabitants in most diverse and innovative trades, see https://mwae.brandenburg.de/sixcms/detail.php/155705.
Great to learn that Theodor Heuss, 1st President for Germany back in 1949, spoke clearly and performed as a designer. He meant to convey a newly emerging democracy by the art of communicating, also by design.
Instead of throwing away things, there are always means and ways to get your tools repaired: this is why I took this picture passing by in my neighbourhood – test it out for yourselves!
Sad stories on the city of Solingen (Bergisches Land, NRW) around a seemingly knife-carrying potential assassin who had lived nearby in an Asylum location nearby: his quest for refuge had been rejected earlier. Such news appear like fire and oil for an obviously ill-informed German society that too easily jumps into generalisation of realities hardly being digested.
https://www.heute.at/s/kreta-naxos-griechischen-inseln-geht-das-wasser-aus-120050509
… ja, das können wir spüren und sehen auf Kreta: das Wasser in Brunnen bleibt weg – hier ein Bild einer befreundeten Besucherin:
Berlin visitors and friends, coffee at Cafe Einstein Unter den Linden, moving on to Motz-Strassenfest last weekend: summer is great :-)
Berlin finally: summer 2024 street in Kreuzberg with Audre Lorde
It has come true … after years of discussions and negotiations or, to put it in Audre Lord’s words:
‘Lyrik ist kein Luxus
… für uns ist sie überlebensnotwendig.
Sie bestimmt über die Eigenschaften des Lichts, in dem unsere Träume vom Überleben und unsere Hoffnung auf Veränderung Gestalt annehmen – zunächst im Gewand der Sprache, dann als Konzept und zuletzt als konkrete Tat.’
Und damit gibt die Geschichte Audre Lorde nun recht: selbst wenn Kreuzbergs Manteuffelstr. nur teilweise Audre Lorde Str. heisst, darf ich mich als direkte Anwohnerin in der Nachbarschaft doch überaus freuen über diese konkrete Tat!