It seems like I should say “as long as this is love…”
Sanna’s 25th birthday is coming up, I remember last year we had this nice dinner in downtown Jyväskylä and I got her Anne Frank’s diary, because I wanted her to understand where I came from, the legacy and burden even 3rd generation post-war austrians [...]
She says Shhh, I know it’s only in my head.
Bianca had her 23rd birthday yesterday. Went out for dinner and had a pretty interesting discussion – Bianca had spent 1 1/2 years in San Diego – of how being abroad, spending time away from the people and things we know, changes us. We just came [...]
A promise.
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”
Nelson Mandela – A Long Walk to Freedom
I believe.
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Hanging by a moment.
Finally got to see “Baltic Storm” today, I posted about it just before I left Finland. The sinking of the passenger ferry “Estonia” in 1994 is counted as one of the biggest post-war maritime desasters. Still the governments of Finland, Sweden and Estonia have done everything possible and impossible to cover up [...]
Tu felix Austria.
Today is our national day. On October 26th 1955, one day after Austria’s ten year occupation had ended, the Austrian government declared Austria neutral now and for all times. Nearly 50 years later, we’re still neutral, that in the middle of world that slowly descends into war and terror. It took us Europeans [...]
Not in my name.
“You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.” – Abbie Hoffman
We may just look a bunch of crazy dissidents to some, but those who I marched with today in San Francisco once again confirmed something for me. That there is [...]
Special needs.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism — how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
America, are you listening?
I believe.
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Take me away.
I’ve seen it all and it’s never enough
it keeps leaving me needing you
take me away
take me away
I’ve got nothing left to say.
Well, I guess there’s quite a few things left to say. Because
I believe.
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Free Speech.
For the first time, George W. Bush has visited my home country and oh, what a reaction it has invoked. Once again I am proud of those politicians such as Sen. Bob Brown and Sen. Kerry Nettle who represent me when they challenge the US goverment’s right to hold Australian citizens and others without [...]
Beautiful day.
It’s a beautiful day, don’t let it slip away. How true. Had a good, day, this winter’s first snowflakes are silently kissing the earth. Thinking about last year. How targetless I was, begin drifted along by life. Now, I feel like I’m back on track again, the right track this one time.
I believe.
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The Price of Oil.
Voices on the radio
tell us that we’re going to war
those brave men and women in uniform
they want to know what they’re fighting for.
The generals want to hear the end game
the allies won’t approve the plan
but the oil men in the white house
they just don’t give a damn.
It’s all about the price of [...]
A perfect moment.
Warsaw. A cold winter day in the December 1970. The Warsaw ghetto memorial. A man falls on his knees. Silence. Only silent clicks of hundreds of cameras surrounding the quiet silhouette. The man is Willy Brandt, German chancellor. Silently he asks for forgiveness for the other Germany, the better Germany, a German that [...]
Across the rhine.
It’s been some time since I just took four days off and did nothing special. I flew from Klagenfurt to Düsseldorf on thursday just to see Mia, a friend whom I met in Finland again. Weird, it’s been over 5 months since we last saw, but some things never change. For example real [...]
Stuff.
To my surprise and amusement, my neighbour is outside right now washing his car (a brand new BMW Z4) for at least the 3rd time this week. His incredibly patient girlfriend gets the great job of detailing the wheels with a toothbrush. Apart from providing his neighbours with something to talk about, this guy somehow [...]
It’s keeping me awake.
Dreams are like stars: you might never fulfill them, but the lighten up your way. I can not change everything this world, but I still feel that on my mission during this life, I can change whatever I WANT to change. So often do we forget that the little things we actually [...]
Miracles.
“To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it”
-Wendell Berry
I won’t give up.
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Not dark yet.
188. 188. 188 american soldiers have been killed after the war on Iraq has officially been declared “won” by mr. bush. 188 lives to many. 188 souls used and abused for one man’s war on whatever. when will the united states, the american people and the american administration start to understand that force, [...]
Bali.
“This seems a reasonable time to search our souls for some corner where humility resides. Our nation behaves in some ways that bring joy to the world, and in others that make people angry. Not all of those people are heartless to kill us for it, or fanatical enough to die in the effort, but [...]
Anna begins.
he’s talking in her sleep
It’s keeping me awake and Anna begins to toss and turn
And every word is nonsense but I understand and
Oh lord, I’m not ready for this sort of thing
But I’m ready for some changes on mindwork.net. From this day on Emily will contribute to mindwork. I couldn’t ask for a better [...]
New beginnings.
First of all, thanks to my dear friend Stefan for inviting me to contribute to this. It really is something special and I hope that I can only do it justice. Somehow it is fitting that today I feel like my life is starting again, not that it ever stopped but was rather frozen [...]
Last dance with Mary Jane.
It’s been a week of emotional limbo. Having Sanna here again just showed me how much I loved her, how much I wanted her to be here and share my new-found spirit for life, work and emotions. We’ve been together for over 2 years now and it’s amazing how well we [...]
Says she’s close to understanding Jesus.
Round here we’re carving out our names
Round here we all look the same
Round here we talk just like lions
But we sacrifice like lambs
Round here she’s slipping through my hands
Sleeping children better run like the wind
out of the lightning dream
Mama’s little baby better get herself in
out of the lightning
She says It’s [...]
Round here.
Step out the front door like a ghost
into the fog where no one notices
the contrast of white on white.
And in between the moon and you
the angels get a better view
of the crumbling difference between wrong and right.
I walk in the air between the rain
through myself and back again
Where? I don’t know.
I believe.
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