Meandering home

Life near the Tempelhof Airfield

This huge airfield in the middle of the booming city has always been an oddity, and during the time of the Berlin Wall (1961-1989) even a symbol of the divided world. Thanks to the Airbridge, life wasn't that miserable in the enclave of West Berlin. After reunification, Tempelhof allowed politicians to move swiftly between ...

19 April, 2012

Berlin, neukoelln, tempelhof

Uncategorized

Community Website & Korean Book

News UpdateNovember 20-December 7, 2010. Mellensee, BerlinWe are still here, in a beautiful snowy forest near Berlin.
Yeon is working on her Korean book on Charity Travel, Kamiel is working on a Community Website for independent volunteers (soon to be pre-launched).
We will travel overland to Korea soon. If you know of any charitable initiatives ...

7 December, 2010

Berlin, magazine, publicity

The good life, Writing

News Update

News Update
November 3 - November 19. Berlin, Mellensee.As the weather turned drizzling dreary, we were working on chapters of the charity travel book, as well as Yeon's children illustration book. Met with betterplace.org but their workload is too high- together we decided a seperate website for independent volunteers is a good idea. We want ...

19 November, 2010

Berlin, books, foundation

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August 20. Decadence.

Berlin and getting organized. Perhaps I have developed a sharp nose for decadence, a term I have a hard time defining by the way. But let's give it a try, you have seen weirder things at this spot. So, what then, is decadence? A bundle of images comes to my mind. People critizising everybody else, ...

31 August, 2009

Berlin, decadence, oysters

Travel

August 19. Getting organized #3.

Berlin and getting organized. I must be riding the metro today, going from meeting to meeting, frantically fighting the depression that is luring in every corner of this city. It is dangerous to be here! How exciting! Dangerous, despite all the friendly people that seem to care about you because you can program their computers. ...

30 August, 2009

Berlin, getting organized, KIMA

Travel

August 18. Getting organized #2.

Berlin and getting organized. Welcome back to my depressing transmission. It will become juicy again I promise. Just have to get on the move again. What's wrong with running anyway? And your unabilities, you better understand that they have a function too. Aren't you a bundle of functional fiber? You have to understand the function ...

30 August, 2009

Berlin, death-row, getting organized

Travel

August 17. Getting organized #1.

Berlin and getting organized. Sometimes I think I can't have real interest in anything. As soon as I try to pursue who knows what, the history of the Roman Empire, a specific problem in quantum mechanics, Goethe's Farbenlehre, Hindi, elementary astrophysics, up-to-date fysiology of the brain, Baudelaire's poetry, an exotic class of differential equations, the ...

30 August, 2009

Berlin, getting organized, power level

Travel

August 16. And laziness strikes first…

Good breakfast... oh those lazy days. I try to write at least a bit, but feel dumb due to the lack of many factual knowledge that I once obtained. It is in some coffee house I work and spend my day. It is the same thing I always do, in Buenos Aires, in Seoul, in ...

30 August, 2009

Berlin, lazy, nongermanic

Travel

August 15. Back? Am I back?

Happily I arrive in Berlin, Michelsberg or something, a small village on the southern ring, from where a hypothetical train could lead me to the centre. I sleep on a park bench for several hours, step on the train that has become real dead-tired and go to my friends' place to surprise them. How warm ...

30 August, 2009

Berlin, calm dog, Michelsberg, wasp leg

Travel

August 13. Hardcore Hitchin’

Hitchin' back to Berlin hardcore. I am a thirty-year-old man and here I am sticking out my thumb in need for a ride back to the city that depressed me so much. I have to get some stuff done, there is a lot of stuff to be done. Preparations. Rearmament. Make sure I'm good to ...

30 August, 2009

Berlin, dead letter, Poland, truck driver

Travel

February 19. Jazz

A life for the art is a life apart. A life à part, a sacrifice of solitude. You have to keep moving on, or you will become mediocre, a painful aesthetic entrepreneur smiling unctuously to his customers. But how do you live art? Hear that question? It is no good thinking about that at all. ...

24 February, 2009

Alfred Brendel, Berlin, café A Brazileira, Daniel Barenboim, Jack, jazz, Mozambique, Napoleon, painful aesthetic entrepreneur, Paris, Patagonia, Southern Patagonia, street musician, writer

Philosophy, Travel