… sagte sich Emily Dickinson vor gut 200 Jahren …

While we tend to think of Kreta summer times, Berlin BER says: more than one million visitors expected between Christmas and New Year 2024 to 2025:
great for Berlin! We are happily receiving those who come, and some who might stay: welcome to Berlin! Happy festivities to all, stay well and come back, if you wish so.

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: `there is work to come` for us who remain at unease.
Let us convincingly fight for better outcomes here in Berlin and everywhere, locally and globally!

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

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!