A deep breath. Never mistake motion for action. Ernest Hemingway I believe.
Read moreAt the end of the day. Sometimes it just feels so great to be human. There are no coincidences and at the end of the day it all makes sense in its own special way. I believe.
Read moreThese days. I was walking around, just a face in the crowd Trying to keep myself out of the rain Saw a vagabond king wear a styrofoam crown Wondered if I might end up the same I believe.
Read moreRain. The first drops sounded like little bugs trying to get out of the mid-day’s heat. Then it came, warm, clean and wanted. Rain, feel it on my finger tips Hear it on my window pane Your love’s coming down like Rain, wash away my sorrow Take away my pain Your love’s coming down like…
Read moreMay it be. Mornië utúlië Believe and you Will find your way Mornië alantië A promise lives Within you now I believe.
Read moreDe profundis clamavi ad te, Domine. And he heard me. There are no missed chances, there are only choices to take and choices to make. Loads of people underestimate the power of believing in what you really want to do. Believing in god, life and the choices I am allowed to make has brought me…
Read moreThere’s a full moon rising Had practice again yesterday, met a friend afterwards and we drove up to the lake to have a drink. I didn’t notice the full moon rising at first, but there it was gracefully glowing above our heads, a slight tint of orange in its shine. I cdouldn’t wait to get…
Read moreA river of tears i just read a geo special about the first years after ww2, the people, the sorrows and the anger. Right now I feel small. They had nothing, just the knowledge that they survived, no place to go, no place to start from. Today, we want more, more, more, without thinking of…
Read moreOn sleepless roads the sleepless go. I noticed that my sleeping behaviour has totally changed to what it was like in Finland. There I spent the nights in front of my computer, waiting for the morning’s first sunrays to appear behind the trees down in the yard and they’d slowly crawl over the horizon, orange…
Read moreMy sundown. mindwork.net finally got its own forum, it’s more out of the box than anything but stil a place where I’d like to pass the torch to everyone of you, you don’t have to register, just point your browser to http://mindwork.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=1 and start talking. do you believe? I believe.
Read moreOnly time Who can say Where the road goes Where the day flows Only time And who can say If your love grows As your heart chose Only time I believe.
Read moreThe torch will be passed Mother Theresa once said that you should never allow anyone to walk away from a meeting with you unhappy. I am sometimes wondering how she meant that, because sometimes the hurt, the pain and the anger we live through by making our decisions, has a cleaning tone, a new beginning,…
Read moreTrue at first light “In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect weed-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across the plain in the morning and you know that no such…
Read moreLet her talk about the things you can’t explain Sometimes the beauty of life comes through in unusual ways. Sometimes it’s just a total stranger telling you, that the discussion you’ve just had, gave him a better insight on something, that it changed him or her in some way or broadened his and my horizon….
Read moreemail outage. my provider is fiddling with its DNS servers again, people sending me email might get a “connection refused” error mail, your mail server should try to resend those mails every couple of hours, in the meantime you can reach me at stefan (AT) cc (DOT) jyu (DOT) fi i believe.
Read morechange. Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. (Leonardo da Vinci) i believe.
Read morethe truth is out there. i had a short but good talk with one of my co-workers. sometimes it just gives you a warm feeling inside, to know someone is sharing your ideals, your visions and dreams. working at the paper means so much to me. day by day new people, new experiences, new puzzles…
Read moreit all comes down to you. started reading another book about why we are how we are, how happiness and sadness are made (yes, made!) and what happens inside us once our emotions kick in. amazing how the human brain works, once a certain situation is associated with a special feeling it gets increasingly harder…
Read moreOpposites attract We got a new working colleague today, she’s studying law in vienna and will stay for a one month internship at the newspaper. It’s weird, I’ve onlsy been there for a month now and they trust me with introducing somebody new to the paper, the company, the values and ideals we share. It…
Read moreCause to me to me you’re beautiful It’s amazing how we human beings think we are only loveable in every which way, if we appear perfect to other people. It’s wron wrong wrong, it’s the big picture that makes us loveable, our little mistakes and failures. Being perfect is not worth striving after, it’s everyone’s…
Read moreA Memoir Where Light And Shadow Meet “At last we meet again .. I have received no answer, my dear, I do not know why you abandoned me .. But what not even your death or my old age can change is that we are still married, this is how we are before God. I…
Read moreall by myself there are no coincidences in this world, everything has a meaning, i remember talking to sabrina and she exactly knew what i was talking about. i didn’t have to explain or tell, she just knew. i believe.
Read morehanging by a thread. To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) I believe.
Read morethose, talking against annihilation… it was a remarkable day in spring 1985, when two remarkable people met in the vienna concert hall. 2000 people in the room, and thousands of austrians at home were listening as psychologist erwin ringel and writer erich fried read and discussed about poetry, psychology and peace. allthough fried died in…
Read morewhat a wonderful world it’s been a long time since I’ve heard eva cassidy’s interpretation of “what a wonderful world”, she died in 1996 and the recording was made only a couple of weeks prior to her cancer-caused dead. her voice is strong and clear and through the darkness she reaches out…. I hear babies…
Read moreFlash-Mob the new Flash-Mob phenomenon has reached my hometown, Flashmob #1 will start on Tuesday, Jul 29th, 11.30 – point your browsers to http://see.you.at/flashmob-klu for more info. I believe.
Read moreMindwork dot net has gotten its first major update since christmas 2001. i remeber those days, doing the first sketches. i felt lonely, depressed and out of this world. the last years have changed me for a lifetime. as b/w as the new layout might seem at first sight, it’s full of colors to me….
Read moreThe old man and the sea. I had to read it again. I was out there on the sea with him, worrying about where the current of the ocean and life will take me. I was waiting, waiting, waiting. Einstein was right, god doesn’t play dice. We just don’t notice him being there, whenever we…
Read moreAbove all others we’ll fly Envy is one of the things I truly despise. Whatever I do in my life, I want to be judged for what I do, my actions, my thoughts, not for where I come from or how old I am. I just keep asking myself if anyone ever has the right…
Read moreYou hear the voices telling you not to go Sanna sent me the pictures we took during the last weeks in Finland. There’s a couple of them from the ferry between Hankko and Rostock too. I remember leaving port, staring out to the sea and silently waving good bye to my life up there in…
Read moreWhen you are with me, I’m free, I’m careless, I believe When I left home yesterday night I wished I could see the sun rise once again (normally I tend to get really tired around 2 am when going out), suprisingly I was so excited about it, I made it, drove out to the lake,…
Read moreBut this dream is the life I’ve been searching for I had my first ever first-page headline at the paper where I am working now. I am proud but the strongest feeling is thankfulness. I am so thankful to all the people that gave and give me the confidence to be able to do what…
Read moreI close my eyes, begin to pray Life is a series of experiences, each one of which us bigger, even it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn, that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward. Henry Ford (…
Read moreNorthern lights. Just checked the weather up there in Jyväskylä, and suddenly I started missing that place so big time, Sanna, Mikko, Ari & the rest of our bunch, it’s weird, I guess I just figured what it actually meant to leave. I believe.
Read moreWho will stop the rain? It’s been raining for a couple of days now, in Finland I would have gone nuts, sitting inside, bound to doing absolutely nothing. Here I barely notice it. I started writing small articles for a regional newspaper published in my hometown and it’s been some time, since I’ve felt this…
Read moreWorld’s apart. It’s been in 10 years since I had last been to the town where my dad works (about an hour away form Klagenfurt), he’s got a small house there, in case he decides to stay overnight. and skip the drive home. Weird enough, but I had never been to his working place before,…
Read moreStar. Bruce played “The promised land” and “The rising” right after each other and for a little austrian guy up there in the seats, right below the roof on that warm summer evening, it felt like he was playing thóse songs just for him. I went home, dancing in the dark.. I believe.
Read moreYou can’t start a fire without a spark Okay well here I am, at the exact place and time I wanted it to be. And still, for now, nothing’s driving me forward, I miss a new challenge. I miss a spark that lights me up, that fires up all the energy inside me. Next week…
Read moreGod’s drifting in heaven, devil’s in the mailbox Woke up early today, had forgotten to send some files to Sanna and she called in early; went outside to repay the parking fee, appearantly it had rained overnight and the air was humid, weather report said it was about 35° Celsius yesterday – unusually hot for…
Read moresave me. wasn’t able to post anything for the last 48+ hours, my provider relocated its datacenter and the dns as well as mindwork.net’s host were cut off. everybody who emailed me, please be patient, your mailserver shoudl try to resend those mails every 12 hours or so.. i believe.
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