The bloody moon and six pumpkins

Yesterday, afternoon, we're having dinner and I suddenly think what a coincidence! 

Life is such a mystery and a beauty and many ways are just surprising. How should have one know that all matches in the end?!

But let's start from the beginning.

Making pumpkins means you have to buy them first but where? Must be easy one may think, if you live in Berlin. Well, not really but as it was, a friend of mine was talking about a flea and food marked the other day I never have been. So what better reason to try this one, as we needed a lot of food and vegetables. The market being in the famous Kreuzberg and near the Yorkstrasse is a turkish market. And we found all we wanted. Well, next to all but most of the food was way cheaper and in better quality as I use to get in stores. Here you must know that food markets in Berlin do not use to be cheaper then the food store in your street. 

It is therefore very easy to imagine for you, how lucky we have been to discover that place and immediately we decided to only buy there once a week for the whole week. 

So pumpkins have landet in our bag. Six to make it clear. Six small but very nice one. And a lot of vegetable - all we have been able to bear. 

Being home it was one was cooking and the other one was cleaning. We expected guests. And we also have hung pictures on the walls as it was time after all. 

But I am drifting away! We beheaded the pumpkins, took out the seed and then made a mix of rice and herbs which was going to put into the pumpkins. An hour before the first guest arrived we put them into the oven as they need a minimum of one hour to get ready to be eaten. 

Skewers with peanut sauce was the next thing we made. 

It all looked very nice at the end and I learned that you actually can eat all of a pumpkin and it was food porn on the table! It tasted wonderful. And I was even dressed in orange without thinking about that this could match. 

Funny thing was we have been three couples on the table and it felt like a classic situation from a movie and the first time that I was not the only single on the table. 
Then it came to my mind that this all look very much like the meeting of the dog owners, as each couple has a dog and so three dogs, three couples and six pumpkins. Sure it does sound like a movie, doesn't it?

And then the fruits on the wooden cup made me feel very rich and of course all those happy people around. 

Later when everyone was gone and my other half was in bed I went up the stairs to the roof garden and watched the moon become a blood moon and it is said that the window of possibilities is closing and the time of results and choices for the future is coming and that compassion is the key for a better future as we are on a crossroad in history and mankind. 

Thought in the moment I just watched to brown/ read moon and this is special as we don't know if we still live in 2033 when the next is to be seen. 

Now the moon looks great and as the moon used to. Like a planet who shines. 

I did not made a picture as I already knew that my mobile is not able to catch the magic and some things should be just to be taken as the moment it is and enjoy. Thought today the internet was a moon walk.... ;-)

If this is a beginning of a new time, then let's make it a good one but one thing is for sure- autumn is on it's way...

LOVE & LIGHT

Listen to my words! European Day Of Language...

Today is European day of languages and I guess we all have in on one or another way experienced the importance of our words. 

Words matters as we make ourself understood for others but also words are the reason for a lot of misunderstanding and even the tools for lies and harm.

Just your mother languages is so important that you have hard to survive without being able to communicate. Lucky are we to live in a world where we can write words down and even the sign language is more common and known. 

Language is also your way to success or fall. Just in my nursing job I have to watch my language very carefully, not only in the way how I speak to people, what to tell them, also what I write down to report or when I write to the doctors, as I am not allowed to diagnose, but to give the doctor a clear wink. But I also have to watch my words for potential lawsuits. 

These days I work many times with nurses and other staff from other countries and so language has become more then important as I have to remind myself to speak clear, easy and slow as possible. 

I lived in Sweden and also worked there and so I learned swedish and could therefor work quite well and understand my patients, colleagues and had a good connection to the doctors and many times by phone, which is in a foreign language all but easy. 

Language is also culture. The more we speak, the more words we use the more we will understand our own culture and those of others. That's why reading is so important. 

Even when you believe you know enough, be sure that one truth is always out there- you'll never know enough! You'll learn that when you start to feel ambition to become more then you are just in the moment, when you want more out of life and when you realize that you have the ability to be better and bigger. At least when you become a leader of a crowd you will quickly understand, that your words not only matters, those words you tell are the communication and image you send out and this will give to people the impression if you are right for your position or not. Never underestimate the need of other people to hear your words and to be listened and get answered even if the answer sounds similar. And never believe it is not such a big thing to put a talking a week later without need will do no harm. 

Remember language is also the reason for gossip and preconceptions. They will possibly believe you are not earnest with your project. Or worse that you don't take them seriously.

In my job I have to talk a lot to my people and also to relative of our patients as again and again can get the impression of wrong understanding or better said; they may understood it right first, but remember then all wrong or part of it, so I have to make a correction. I also try then to get an answer which shows me if they understood or not. This does not make sure that they will still remember the right understanding next time we meet. Especially when you work with your staff, make sure to talk and talk and talk about similar things as many listen just the moment and then forget. That's why many staff members believe they did not get the mention of a project or change or they should have been asked, or they believe you did things without informing them. Many bosses forget that or are unaware of that problem and the challenge that means. 

That's why I try to make team meetings as often as possible and try to put in as much as I can, but not to much, as people can get tired. Also I make sure to take up stuff which is not so nice and put the truth as possible on the table. Your people will more likely believe in you and be with you. 

And then let's not forget to keep in mind, when you work with people from another country to get to know how they use to communicate. It makes a big difference and that is something we almost forget. 

And if you want to work in another country- please read all the books and ask your friends in the countries how people use to be and communicate. It will spare you a lot of bad luck and more important will keep you people friendly and helpful. The mistakes are so easy to make, even if we are quite international these days. 

But don't be afraid, it is not all hard work. Get to know a new language and also therefore the culture is a lot of fun and amusement. The joy you will be able to achieve is worth all the learning and awaken nights. For me it is also very interesting how much it helps me to understand other countries, if I can read the press, understand the TV and News and cinemas and books. I also get another view on my own country and our habits and image we have and what we believe we are in your eyes. 

And even my friends in other countries help me to understand the world, myself and a lot of whys, hows and so on. 

I am heard of hearing and so happy to have hearing aids and feel a little helpless and out of this world, like when I am not part of it, when they are not functional. I am also very grateful to have met people who shows understanding but also take me the way I am and yes with a little help of humor it all got me far and will bring me further. Misunderstanding is therefor something I really know for sure. 

In that way... we have a lot to think about the potential of our languages and can be happy that we speak and so lets use positive words and try to avoid negative talking. If our future has to become better, then it depends of the use of strong and positive words. 

Happy european language day and I hope I could make myself understood. 

LOVE & LIGHT

a short way to understand... less meat is good...

A video even if it is in german shows in a simple way what would happen if we eat 80% less meat and flesh: 

Was passiert wenn wir 80% weniger Fleisch essen?Einige mögen nicht ganz darauf verzichten wollen, aber für deine eigene Gesundheit, das Wohlergehen der Tiere und den Fortbestand der Natur wie wir sie kennen, ist es notwendig, deinen Fleischkonsum zu reduzieren. Du kannst vieles allein durch deinen Konsum verändern, lass deine Trägheit dem nicht im Weg stehen!
Posted by Wach Auf on Freitag, 18. April 2014

https://www.facebook.com/WachAufMenschheit/videos/238553619667572/?fref=nf 

LOVE & LIGHT

The gardener

Some of my near and dear say a gardener has passed my way- meaning, am I doing the right job?

Well, I am good at my job and like the work but it is true, it's no big love and so I am not missing the work, when I have my days off. But doing some things in the garden, with plants and flowers I always miss it when I don't have the chance to do so. 

I love to work with them and could be there for hours and one of my dreams still is a little house and a big garden and I am very sure that I could survive this way. Thought I am not professional and just reading a book about gardening once in a while. 

I just do and watch and learn that way and seems to have a good hand with it. 

No, it does not always grow the way I hoped for but that is the way it is for a gardener to see, which plant likes which place and what can you do to make it better, more beautiful and it is absolutely a never ending story as you start each year anew and a garden, even a balcony is never finished. But like the most gardener and hobby gardener we know this is part of what we enjoy. Have the plants survive? What about a new combination of plants and do they like each other this year? Have I bought a good plant and will this seed grow and how fast, how much, how big?

Actually if the GDR was still in existence I had no other choice then to become a gardener as I am handicapped and so we only had a couple of jobs we were allowed to learn and practice. Yes, we were second hand citizen. We have been good enough for the worst job and the stupid one. 

But having grown in a time when it was normal to have a garden to plant vegetable, fruits and herbs, I have learned by my grandmother a big deal how to maintain a garden. 

I guess in the next years I will finally have my own garden as going from balcony to roof garden makes it very likely to make this dream come true. 

And then I will always see the little beauty inside a garden, between the leaves, the branches like you can see on the following pics. And if you look closer you'll see that there is always a little changing.

Enjoy and if you like write me your experiences and thoughts about gardening. 

Love & Light

getting the pics bigger- click on them!

Make a break!

Yes, that what was needed as I started a new job and had very much to do and get used to.  Working at a new place is mostly exhausting and in nursing and leading a group too it sure is. But after all it went well but gave me also much to think about what do I want and to remember that patience is important until you are really used to the new working place. Expectations are always high, especially when you're not the youngest. In the same time I just had moved and got used to a new lifestyle, as I used to live alone.

Living in Berlin is always a challenge and as things there always change, so your own impressions and feelings. But it is very interesting for me to see how much my own view on the town has changed in the last years and how far away I got and the result is that I am going to move to another town and place in the next years. Not sure when this will happen, as I just start to make my B.A. in medicine.

The new situation also made me think twice about working in Sweden again and then make it like a half year there and a half year stay in Berlin. But then it would be just to study and live and no work.

But as love life seems to work I also have to think about what happens with us...? Will he come with me? Where does he wants to live? 

Lucky as I am, he also wants to move away in the next years. Not now but in the future. But will it be Sweden? I am not that sure as he never was in Sweden himself and so when I made my break and traveled back to Gothenburg and visited my friends and second family I tried to see and find new things and ways to look at this place I knew. 

Some places do really look very similar to places in Germany and maybe just the roof is different. In town they build a lot these days and so you can discover a new tram line and again that old and new are mixed and next to each other. Also it is something special to have an amusement park in town you'll see when you come from outside Gothenburg by highway.

It is for sure much quieter to live in Gothenburg as in Berlin, thought it can be very lonely too there. And I don't know but I am a bit over the way of living in Berlin and ready for a live with less stress- or better less negative stress. 

Summer in Sweden can be very nice and of course visiting the islands is a must, as there it is really beautiful and peaceful to take a walk. But don't wonder if you won't be the only one.

I saw many friends on these three days and had some wonderful conversations. It always feels like home. And this break was appreciated as it seems I had worked such a long time- thought it was not that long ago that I started the new job. But then I am sure part of the need was, the so called wanderlust and that I was already so over Berlin. I do not feel home any longer there. 

Now I feel much better and hope you can enjoy my pictures and get an idea how wonderful it can be. This town has culture, food, ways to walk, nature and sun and even nice people living there. It is a bigger town as you may imagine and calm but not to calm after all- a bit traffic is always going on. 

Love & Light

first day I arrived late afternoon to have dinner with my dear colleague

second day I started with waiting in the bus station and enjoying the luck of sun and warm weather

in town and around you'll find those big rocks... actually they are no rocks it's what the ground is made of in many parts - stone

the blue bus who always brings me to town as I used to live at my second family in Landvetter and I do really love them

tram and buss stop - Brunsparken- in the centre of Gothenburg

I did well mention some things seems familiar...

a look to the centre from the river... or better from a bridge over the river

just on the other side the harbor and the new tram line

the opera house and the "lipstick" a office block

like I said- old and new next to each other

marine ships next to the harbor

click on the pics to get them bigger :-)

finally some typical houses.. 

the amusement park and the big ferris wheel and the three Gotha towers...

How could I not get some cake and coffee and a newspaper !

an international sailing competition took place

there is always another boat and you should make sure to be on the right one

your own little boat next to your home- how about that?

a view of the island Styrso Bratten 

inside it look kind of blue

bad  weather- no just salty water!