snow travels

snow travels from the Pacific and is blow-dried on the way across the desert

snow travels at an average speed of 100 miles per hour in an avalanche

snow travels to visit a sultan and ask for his assistance

snow travels down to the bottom of the page

snow travels, living out its passion

- thursday challenge & google: "vacation / journey"

seen

one passing moment
seen from the close distance of
a passenger's seat

- photo friday, challenge: "fast"

small things i'm grateful for

chicoree salad with feta and balsamico

the peacefulness of the lilac flowers blossoming in the frosty earth right in front of my terrace door

sitting and listening to the church bells ringing noon

singular snow flakes dancing in the january air

slipping back into the warm bed after taking a morning shower

- inspired by my topography

the insides of colour

trees sleep
time moves
through the insides
of dreams
of colour

- thursday challenge "white"

one open plot

• episode :: one
• source :: open
• jerk :: hidden
• introduce :: heureux
• stare :: sunglasses
• cast :: away
• scenario :: plot
• flu :: aspirin
• mad :: max

- unconscious mutterings, week 206

stone peace

one of the most peaceful smiles i have seen on my journeys, carried by a carved stone figure in bayon, one of the temples of angkor wat, cambodia. best way to see it: get up at 4 (a.m. that is), get picked up by a motobike at 4.30, drive to the temples while it's still dark, to be there for dawn. sit down on one of the ancient temple terraces, and see the light return to the world, bringing back the colours and the sounds. and then, see this smile appear out of the haziness of the darkness, set there in a past that is still present.

- photo friday, challenge: "peaceful"

concentrate

this week, the first yoga lesson of the year. starting with reflections on the new year. in my mind, the resolutions i think of, but haven’t yet written on paper. even though it’s the second week of january already. maybe i want to keep them lingering some more, still formable, still more alive than they might be when put in words.

one of them: write a novel. in German. get it published by a publishing house.

another: sort through all the things i own. let go of what i don’t need. make more space for the things that are precious to me.

and with that, in a wider sense: concentrate. intensify.

or, like someone put it in an art feature: make as much as possible with as little as possible.
this alreay reflects in the sunrise collage, based on the view of one single window.

and this one. printed on a memory stick: do more. share more.

also: just do it. and keep in mind that difficult things become easy by doing them, and easy things become difficult by not doing them.

this also refers to putting new year resolutions in ink.
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whirl

new year time reel
resolutions spinning hopes
endings turning to
beginnings opening
floors of possibility,
doors to next levels

and what are your plans
i ask the woman in red
after sitting in a yoga circle -
to stay on the surface
of the stream, she answers,
to just not get caught
in the next whirl

- thursday challenge: "new"

try the missing piece

• incomplete :: missing piece
• chopstick :: china
• trauma :: healing
• hesitate :: try
• leap :: and the net will appear
• magnify :: light
• yards :: baseball
• alexander :: elephant
• fracture :: crack

- unconscious mutterings, week 205

call

mangled nude absurd
brutalities meow, hearts call
call, meek

- real sky, automatic haiku

recent publications

january - and it starts with three publications that form a coloured trip through time:

Cherry Charm - a 4-word poem, containing the words "bathrobe, plastic, juxtapose & impediment", to be read in eclectica

Lanzarote - an island diary, written in November under the sun of Spain, now online in Serene Light.

Wrapped in December - a street snack poem, to be unwrapped in the Cautionary Tale Food Spectacular (which comes with a tasty cook book-lette - check out it, there is a chocolate kiss waiting inside.)

the extended version of this list is up here: list of publications

january flowers

the first friday of january was all rainy, but it was the nice kind of rain: it stopped just when she unfolded her umbrella and stepped out of the house. are you sure?, she asked the sky. as an answer, she left the umbrella indoors and took an extra turn when walking back from the small supermarket. that's how she came past the flower shop, and saw the white pots with little yellow narcissus, just starting to grow. of course, she had to buy two of them, one for herself, and one for her painter friend who would visit her later.

the flower shop waitress wrapped the flower pots up in orange paper. all those spring colours!, she said to the shop assistant. the shop assistant smiled, then thought for a second, turned, picked something from the bench beyond the counter, and handed her - a fancy red flower. for free. all surprised, she said thanks twice to the shop assistant, and left, feeling like christmas. it was only when she was back home, looking for a place to put the flower, that it started to rain again, and that she remembered the fifth of her new year's resolution: to ask for the name of the flowers before she carried them out of the flower shop.

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some hours later: the riddle is solved. the flower's name is: amaryllis. it belongs to the family of amaryllidaceous. which, as the scienticts figured, also the narcissus belong to. which makes the two flowers in the photo actually sisters. and with that, unexpected an unplanned, solves the task to find an entry for this week's photo friday challenge.

- photo friday, challenge "sisters"