this time it was hard, hard to leave behind a life, friends, my job, hockey. but then there’s brussels in front of me and nothing to hold me back. i am luckey and i sometimes forget to realize how much life has given me so far. and then there’s astrid, who enriches my life in…
Read moreSleep
Sleep is really underrated these days. It seems that we all lead such busy lives that the easiest place to find that extra time is to cut back on sleep, as if sleep is some wasted time. I see it with my colleagues and my family. I know I don’t need as much sleep as…
Read morestark encounters
recently i had one of the most delightful and entertaining interviews in a long time: oded stark is not only a highly recognized scientis but also a professor at my alma mater, the University of Klagenfurt. During the 1 1/2 hour talk we had, I felt the utmost respect not only for his scientific accomplishments…
Read moredid i try my best?
Heaven bent to take my hand And lead me through the fire Be the long awaited answer To a long and painful fight Truth be told I’ve tried my best But somewhere along the way I got caught up in all there was to offer And the cost was so much more than I could…
Read moremade in finland
and it always comes back to me in one way or another: finland. today it was in a professional way, as i was doing research for an article about finnish design. when i contacted marimekko (a finnish company famed for their stylish design) i experienced once again what i sometimes really miss here: friendliness on…
Read moreme, the dog
Yesterday I did an interview with cartoonist Gerhard Haderer, who is regularly contributing to the german magazin “Stern” and the Austrian weekly “Profil”. In the evening he signed his new book for me and asked me what I would want to look like in a drawing. I asked him to try whatever he thought of…
Read moreon the radio
This is how it works You’re young until you’re not You love until you don’t You try until you can’t You laugh until you cry You cry until you laugh And everyone must breathe Until their dying breath No, this is how it works You peer inside yourself You take the things you like And…
Read moreI will be heard!
…I am in an aggressive mood today … I will be laid back and calm again… but I reflected on the past this morning, listening to hatebreed´s “I will be heard”… “Now is the time for me to rise to my feet Wipe your spit from my face Wipe these tears from my eyes I’ve got to take…
Read morethe peace inside
the last days and weeks were some of the most quiet in the last years. quiet and peaceful in a way i seemed to have forgotten. “we can’t remember anymore what it means to let go, to really relax”, i was told in an unlikely place. and i noticed something else: the more quiet things…
Read morethe old and the beautiful (reaffirmed)
it’s been some time since i wrote about a bad experience i had when dropping my grandmother at her doctor’s office. well yesterday i started believing again, in one way or another. sitting next to me in my hairdresser’s shop was an old lady, aged anywhere between 70 and 80. you could tell her hearing…
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