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There are linen sheets on my bed, it is Summer! more photos from trafal
It is Summer. This blog is taking a break.
What does that mean?
I love to write. I also love to write this very personal blog. It is that I just do not find myself in the personal-blogging space very often these [...]

I DO love continental summers with rain and all! Free… very free!

more photos from tensoriana

We did end up at the desperado not the milchbar due to a wonderfully wet summer storm. And guess what? Somebody had a birthday at another table and they played that gawful song again… (we love torture).

DSC01297, originally uploaded by Dannie Jost.

Walked home and was [...]

DSC 5536, originally uploaded by Dannie Jost.

On a toujours cherché des explications quand c’était des représentations qu’on pouvait seulement essayer d’inventer.
Paul Valéry (1871-1945)

00220, originally uploaded by milenanelim.

No! It is just a back stretch at the end of training. Sensei Matt Teale (Athens, Greece) did correct my stance when doing this just on Sunday as I was standing much broadly and running the risk of getting an hernia. Nine hours of training during the [...]

Politics… the local variety

The honeymoon is over, there is work to do. I am at this point dealing with my own administrative breakdowns and my strong wish that it would be really easy to deal with this city. After all my bank has managed to make it possible for me to log-in to my account [...]

Me loves you all, you all know that, or sorta know that. But now imagine all the films that I have missed while writing up my own. Writing up? It is a long story as usual.
Recently I told somebody very dear to me who was stuck in a certain dearly and tightly held position to [...]

Lifters @ CERN in Geneva, originally uploaded by Charles Nouÿrit.
I like blue. I like scaffolding. I like the ties that bind us. I like the myriad cables behind instruments. I like theory. I like it when my communities connect. I like anonymity. I like silence. I like distance. I like solitude.
Why, oh why [...]

DSC 5375, originally uploaded by Dannie Jost.
Twice this week I have had to make a quick call on my knowledge of Chemistry. Once it was on a bus while my Aikido Sensei asked me a few questions about a certain illumination object, and I kept not quite being able to make much sense of [...]

Tokyo International Forum - I, originally uploaded by NavindaK.
I have been here and I have been over there, and for the most part it really does not matter where I am. As a matter of fact I am a bit tired of writing in the first person singular.

was wird aus dem stadtwanderer? - der neue bundeskanzler …, originally uploaded by stadtwanderer/randonneur_urbain.
I got a message from a friend of mine now in Sarajevo that something or other had happened today in the National Parliament. Oh! It is the 12th of December! The election of the new Federal Counselors was slated for [...]

oil and water, originally uploaded by Dannie Jost.
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