The secret of Jane Austen

Still we are in the autumn of books and another classic is on my list. I can't resist to tell you about it. Jane, my Jane, the lovely Miss Austen. The women who wrote in secret about the real life and the ideal who was given everyone to follow, but she refused to let it be the only thing worth living for. Yes, she put her critics of the times into her books in a way you have to discover by reading and knowing that the critics are sitting in the characters she describes and let live the way she thought it should be.  

And yes, it was much about how a women should live and what she actually believed it should become and be at the end. She wanted to show a way to free women from their own cage. 

Thought, after her famous books came out, most believed that women waited till marriage before they had a sexual life and all that stuff but that was not always the case and yes, there have been strong and rich women with own money in that time, but that is another book and it is about a very smart women in the time of Jane Austen and she owned a lot and all to herself, had her love affairs and also with women. But let's not get away from Jane, our dear Jane. 

Are her books only for women? No, they are for all. 

Are the books only about love? No, they are mostly about conections, families and traditions. They are about habits of us humans and how we deal with them and the possibility to learn from mistakes. Love just comes in the way and is like a care to bring you from one theme to another, to connect stories and people and situations. 

Are the books for today readers just amusment? Yes, they can be and will be but also they give you the opportunity to compare with the habits of our time and how we deal with things and what is actually better now and then. 

You will be surprised how people dealed with unease and how less medicine of our days help compared to what they used to take then for example. 

But yes, the books, no matter which one, are amusment and so easy to read and even know they have a lot of characters you won't miss a thing and can follow each story, even if you take a longer break from reading a book of hers. Jane Austen also has a very wonderful language and way to use words. It feels soft and delighting to read the letters and you whish sometimes to be part of the stories and have the ball and talk with the characters by yourself and sometimes you dream of being that easy to take a walk like they did. 

I am also sure you will like the places in England today too, which Jane was writing about but you can also find similar places like, well in Stockholm, as I have experienced myself. 

Of course Janes books are famous and you have for sure seen some of the movie adaptations. Some better, some less, some very Hollywood, some very alike the book, like those made from BBC. 

I wrote about them, just check them under DVD or movie. 

Anyway, still many believe Jane Austen is no literature. If they just knew. It is!

She might be not a Shakespeare, but she has class and is fun to read and gives you more then the eye catches on first sight.

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I have a tale to tell

I wish old houses would be able to actually tell, then what would we know, what could we ashive and what rumours would delight our days! 

Again I will write about my hometown and places you can discover when you are here. 

As it is, this town is not that little and has a quite interesting history and while the years gone buy the town is changing. 

As a tourist you'll be for sure most time trying to figure out what is the centre and what to see is most inside the ring of our overground. Of course the buildings, the museums and clubs are mostly there but we have also other places to discover and if you have more then three days or have been already in town once or twice, then here is another area whish shows you how different Berlin can look and feel. 

Remember this town is founded in the way that two villages became one little town. Then all the other villages around became part of this town and so this place became bigger and still all those churches and gardens, all those parcs who have been once the centre of the life are now part of a big puzzle called Berlin and then as history went on or better the time, we took away houses, changed places and build street after street and the wars have punched in too and so some places are special as war has not done damage or humans themself. 

After the well known Kurfürstendamm which was once the longes shopping mile, you'll find the Schlossstrasse in Steglitz. Just 10- 15 min away from the Zoo and the old centre of the west part (you remember that there was a wall once splitting the town in two).

But shopping itself can be dull, can't it? So why should you be there, coming out of the underground? To see the "Bierpinsel" a building colourful and closed now due to unsurence fight? No, it's because the parallel streets are a wonderful area to do a walk before or after shopping and having a coffee. Why? Because you can find an italy villa or some house with a south german balcony or a miracle house or a little castle. The reason? The war did not destroy much in this area and it is a quite walk you'll take and your orientation point or better street is the Grunewaldstrasse as you walk the streets left and right, up and down. 
For me it is a pleasure to take the dog walks there. 

Look those picutres down below will give you a short impression. Don't they?

Thought for me, it feels like beeing in a whole other town not being in Berlin. And that is another reason why I recommend this little part to discover and if you come buy bus, then take the M48 and a lot of time, as this bus line can be taken from the centre in the east part and will take about an hour which is actually worth as you get a sightseeing tour too. Does this sound good? Well then... have fun!

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It's the Doctor...Who?

Forbidden Love is always a theme in the doctors diary but also the question how to solve a problem and get through another adventure. Something we want to experience too, won't we?

We like to flee from our everyday life once in a while. See new things and be curious and open minded, being strong and have some mad man next to you and in the same time enjoy a ride into space and time. 

Yes, the question always remains since the series started. Who is he? What is his real name, does he have one? Does he still know? 

His companion are always our eyes to his world and they try to solve our questions and his drive. 

They help him to remind sane and also to do the right thing. 

I like the fact that this series mix old times, future , space places and earth adventures. They use to also take place in real history and facts. 

But the series is actually also much in our time with the our question put in adventures the Doctor and his companions try to survive. The question of politics and our every day life. The way we act and the question how mankind believe, it will survive, even know this series shows that mankind will do, but the question it shows is also how. Science fiction series use to tell us much about the way people act and think and the habits we are unaware. But they also give us always a chance and show a way out and to think out of the box. They use to be more open and modern as other series. 

Yes, I like Doctor Who, because it does not matter who or what you are. And gladly they really do not give a shit about your sexuality. A tree women fancies the doctor or lesbians are fighting together with him, worth as all the others, equal in his eyes. A lesbian lizard and bisexual characters, gay heros and interspecies relationships, a transgender horse and much more and even a man called Captain Jack got his own category as he fancies everyone and everyone fancies him. Even the Queen is in love with that mad man with his many faces. 

Which is one reason of the success actually. The change of his face and body to fool the death, thought he can do this only 12 times. But that does not matter now. His character evolve, he change and has to find himself always a new. Think of that chance and we call it luck but with him we also see the price and also the price of living so long. Sometimes to long. 

But then we like how he is funny, clever, smart, grumpy, earnest and stupid. He acts like a whirlwind and sometimes comes through like a storm and other times he seems to be such a dumb and dull alien so his companion are up to no god to help him out. 

I came across this show through the series Torchwood which is actually made out of Dr. Who. And when I lived in Sweden I was able to watch the Show on TV as it is nearly not able to be seen in Germany.

Now I start to watch from the very beginning of the series as it is on TV over 50 years! 

The first Doctor, an old and grumpy man and not very nice but changes with time into a man who takes things serious and takes also a look on to what action have in reactions. He understands that each thing he does leads to something more. 

It is fun to watch this, as I was not sure if I would like the old version and black and white TV Show and obvious plastic set in the background and for our eyes now, bad technic. 

And after all, it is entertaining, amusing, chilling and also surprisingly fun mixed with horror. You'll never know the next level. Thought the last doctor which is now airing in England and America is a challenge. First it was the scrips, now I don't know as I did not seen them. The change was always good, but now the question  is also who writes the stories. It seems new fans like it but older miss the mix, the special touch this show had. Mixed feelings among the fans but then it seems that all just maybe needed time and to remember the producers to remember why they have been good. 

Well, we'll see how this will go on and how long, as fans now must face the end of this series. Not knowing when or how and so many questions remain open and we all know some will never be answered as this is a reason to watch the show. But the Doctor has to die. 

Then again, you are still able to learn a thing or two from watching the show. That the loudest voice is not those who tell always the truth. That a little hug can help more then a big talk, but that communication in a team is all. Being a good leader means to do it without telling people what to do and this is actually something I try to put in my work. Also to listen more carefully and see the bigger picture and behind. 

But I would absolute leave for a ride in the blue box. If I hear the sound of the Tardis, I would run and find out where it has landed to get in. But in the same time I understood long ago that if you look on your own life with the right eyes, there are adventures everywhere and things to discover, to solve, to learn and get stronger, to fight and to change yourself and the question, how open minded are you. 

And you, how about you?

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Love me!

Haven't we read this many times? Have you not heard about loving each other and love yourself? Have you not heard and read about to close your eyes and stay in silence? Have you not heard to eat this and that and which food is good and bad? Have you ever wondered about when to know you can trust those helping books, those yoga session or promises of meditations lifting up your spirit?

Well, there is one book to give you a guide. One book to read and clear your mind. One book to be astonish, to smile and be afraid of when reading, while you long for more to read in the same time. One book to make you understand what does your path means and why do you live the way you do and how it comes you never reached your destiny yet. 

Yes, it's an old book and from a time where people did the same as we do today. Searching for answers, searching for peace and searching for easy ways. 

That book, very light written, but in no way boring, playing in another time and land will show you with its story how a man can change back and forth and finally understand, what he's up to and how he wants to live. 

This book tells you about a man who is giving up again a life style one after the other. A man who really tries everything to master silence, peace and to be without wish and to be therefore happy and wealthy. This man and his story shows you that you can go many ways but each way can lead to nowhere and anywhere, because it is up to you. 

This man is called Siddhartha.

Hermann Hesse has written many books but this one I recommend warmly as it is about us, you and me and the truth we still not live after. 

A spiritual book, not being spiritual like in our days, but just being a book, a story which   makes you feel the spirits nature. 

It's not a big book, nor a book with many sides. But it contains a lifetime. 

In a language which is smooth and soft, but growls into you. 

This is my second recommendation for the autumn of books.

Yes, another old writer, which is also dead but should be known still, again and again... and again.... 

Take Siddhartha home!

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purple rain

Yes, it is October the 15. and the day to wear purple in the rain or even sunshine as this is the day to show to other people that you are against bullying. 

Just a couple of years ago this idea grow out of the fact that we still have to deal wit death caused of being bullied. Yes, still people kill them self because some people treat you bad or take you as a walking joke. 

To be true, those people know mostly very well what they do to you but ignore that you are human and have fun or do it to have fun and feel stronger, bigger or show of power. 

Bullying has many faces and many times you are not seeing it clear, many are not even aware that you are a victim of such a try. 

So let's take a deeper look on how bullying can be.

First the very obvious. You can already experience this in Kindergarten. There is this boy or girl, looking not exactly what others do and some start to make jokes on you, call you names and sometimes also beat you up, sometimes more, sometimes less and unseen for others, when you are standing alone in the corner. They steel your clothes, bags or put them in unreachable places, they look you in the toilet or leave you with a mark which made you look like a stupid one. 

Another is to stalk you or treat you over Facebook and catch you just in front of your door at home and tell you, you are worthless and get a punch if you do this or that. They don't want you to feel strong, be good or make things right and eat your fear and loves you unsure and feeling weak. But some also go a step further and burn your house or car or throw things at you. 

Bullying is not only to make a joke, it is treating you bad and sometimes to death.

Most who are the reason why people feel sick and weak are in no way aware of the impact this all has on a personality of the victim. How much they can destroy a happy life with just a few words. They believe being harmless because it is just a joke but inside they know it is always more, it's the which to harm and do bad things without calling it that way, as most people will not see it that way or just say exactly the same like those who do you harm and if some victim stand up they first laugh at you and try to put you down until they fight back and show them how much it can hurt but many are to afraid and many have already understood they would not be better then those who inflict the pain.

So this day is also a chance to talk to others when to stop and to be more aware that doing so is not a sign of being stronger, better or powerful. It's the other way 'round!

Also bullying is not to find just in school, Kindergarten or working place, it is also very common in politic and private life. Sadly, less people call it what it is and most people are very unsure when does such thing start to be what we call bullying. When is it just a joke, when not and how do I know if this will hurt? 

Of course first of all it is the victim who tells you the border. But then you can be smart enough and take to empathy; then you'll know very clear when to stop. It is also the indent of why you make a joke. Is it showing of, or show a mistake? Is it to harm or to remember? If you call someone names, why do you do it and what names are you calling?

And it should be clear that giving out a false statement and false information about another person to inflict some action or because you don't like the other one or you want to put yourself in a better position, that this is bullying. A very common thing colleagues do. Telling things which are not true or they know they are most likely untrue. It's a pity that they do as they weaken the position and make things harder to change.  But some do as they are not happy with their own situation, but instead of being true they go that way and I hope in this case that life will show them this is wrong. 

It is also bullying to deny others people right because you feel unsure or have not a clue or just a bad feeling. And we know people still do because of your skin color, gender, sexuality or because you are disabled. They believe you are weak or want you to be. 

But what can we do to stop this? 

Of course talk and write about that problems. Wear purple to give the possibility to other people to talk to you and a chance to change or find a way out of their situation as many victims have to learn to change the way they think about them self and how others look at them. The change of habits and believes are the most successful way to get rid of those  who hurt you as you let yourself be hurt and the more negative you are, the more weak you let yourself be, the more you will stay or be a victim. You can change the situation by thinking positive of yourself and find good things about you and for you. It may take time but at the end, just remember you are stronger then them because they have the need to act that way to feel stronger but they will let go if you are visibly stronger as them and if its just having a strong back again. Look out for friends who think as yourself or better who have the same interest. It's not about changing them, it's to change yourself and then they will do or just leave you alone. 

You know I am hard of hearing and people assume that I am stupid or not good at work and some try to talk behind me and tell I am weak, not right and so on, but I never cared about that and after years I always experience the same, that after a while some people tell me what they did believe but are happy now that they have changed their mind. That's the way I do, let them get their own picture of me and make own conclusions and if they like it or not is their problem. My decision is my reaction to what they do. And before I react to fast I take time to think and let things come down and I try to see thinks from different sides.  

So now... go out, wear purple, talk and look out for situations which are clear to make a stop and show your courage.

Love & Light

autumn of books

Shakespeare it is we talk about now.

Why is he still one of the writers I recommend to read, no matter what you have read and what you use to read? Why is he one of those we need to read to understand ourself, our culture and language?

We know mostly Shakespeare these days from the movies which are made from the books and we know there are plays in the theatre. But a young generation may ask why follow an old guys stories?

You may be right but that fella is not something else and he is not just something commercial.

Yes, he was already famous in his lifetime. But he was good and smart and did not just write some plays to entertain.

You may now say it is only dramas you'll watch but that's not true. He also wrote a lot of comedy- kind of. Yes, it can be fun to read his books.

So what is the most famous book of him, as he did wrote quite a lot?

Seems the most popular is the book of "Romeo and Julia". Many take it just as a story of two families who fight each other and two people falling in a forbidden love (which has been covert by many). 

Mostly we have read the book in school and found it kind of boring, or painful, dull or could not even take it. 

Schools like to take this book as they believe it is the most easy book to understand, but that is not really true as you are mostly to understand the love play as a young man but not the bigger picture. Shakespeare was by no mean just writing a love story, a tragic one, but it was much more. The fight was the main story actually, but it was a synonym for a political situation home in England and the fight between class systems and believes.  Yet, the play takes part in Italy which was meant to be a trick to avoid to not be able to show the play back home. Thought people did quite understood the message.

But let's look on the other books like those around from 1606.

They show the mood of the time and those plays addressed very powerful the political situation and social upheavals. They reflected the fraught cultural moment. Shakespeare wanted to show a mirror and  the pressure which was to live with. He also shows the religious terror and the beginning of the modern time clashing with the old standards.

The dramas and also tragedies of "King Lear", "Macbeth" and "Antony and Cleopatra" have been written in this theme and they use for example dark element as witches, grimly regicide and the obvious mad minded man and also goth elements. 

But it is horror you can't stop reading as the language of Shakespeare is such as rhythmic and beautiful and you are astonished buy the amount of different words and words you never heard but you still understand the saying and writing and situation you are stuck with in the book. You can also see the comedy, the laughter and feel the cry and craziness. 

You may then remember the light of Shakespeare "Romeo and Julia" and how funny the play is or "A midsummer nights dream" fantasy and laughter. Yes, the comedy has a lighter language, but is in no way easier to understand. Just in the first moment you may think so. But all books have in common that the language is kind of a song you sing while reading. 

Shakespeare language is to the point, no waste and always rhythmic and has a melody you can't miss if you read it aloud, nor even in silence. 

Thought sadly these days kids have problems reading even "Romeo and "Julia". Which is truly a sad thing and something we should think about. It is not only that language has gone forward and changed in the way we use it and words have also changed, it is that the understanding of long sentences have been lost and I wonder how we will get young people to learn to understand the old books if they only can understand twitter long terms. Teachers should work hard I guess and in a way movies maybe can help to want to read the books again and talk about them, but can the movies show the meaning of the books? Will the new "Macbeth" in cinema stand this test or just be a spectacle? 

Thanks to the language actors still love to perform Shakespeare as it is a wonderful language to use, and it is like a spell on you when you start it buy yourself to say those words loud out.

That is why I recommend to read this book and give it to anyone and press them in a way to read them, to learn from them and to understand history and the time now and also where we come from, how old some problems are and to touch our hearts to do the right thing. 

Give it a try, please. 

But do me a favor, avoid those modern translation and versions who put the plays in our days language. It destroys all the fun. And if your language is not english in first, try the english and your countries language versions, as it is a difference sometimes. Shakespeare is all but easy to translate.

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Let there be light!

Since a few years each October you'll find thousands of people on the street when it's dark in Berlin.

It's the festival of light and goes three days but actually starts a week before with the weekend of lights. So artist and other people use the open space, or streets and buildings to put light on them and then to change over to put projections instead. 

Many famous buildings are the victims but also bridges and unknown houses get lifted from a colorful ray of light. 

This weekend since friday, you'll see moving pictures on the wall, or changing images. 

It has not only become very popular to take a walk through dark Berlin in autumn until the morning drops. It also has become much better now. 

The pictures you are going to see are more amazing now and even surprising. Of course most buildings who got a shine on are at -Potsdamer Platz-  or -Brandenburger Tor- and on the street -Unter den Linden-. These are the main places, if you like it to call them. Even the famous -Ku'damm- is with. And many more and so you have to decide which route to take. Tourist shops and information places and hotels will help you for sure to find out what you want or is best for you as you also can be on a boat tour. 

So if you are in Berlin do that walk and discover! But be aware it is cold and even when you can buy the first "Klühwein" you are going to feel cold if you have no scarf and other cloths to keep you warm as you have to wait on some places to watch all the images. 

This year I did a 2,5 hour tour and it is much colder as last year, otherwise I sure would have stayed longer. But maybe you are stronger. Just know until tomorrow midnight you are able to enjoy this event and next chance is not before next year October. 

Still not sure? Well, look at the pics I made... they may give a little idea and feeling to you.

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near Potsdamer Ptlatz

a game of cards and a hotel in fruit

Brandenburer Tor

our wonderful Staatsoper- colors like music

August Bebel Platz where the "Progrom night" took place 1933 and the burning books have been

even chines art is to see

our Univeristy- Humbold Universität

the University and Humbold himself in front of it or better an image of him

on the corner of the Deutsches Historisches Museum near the Museumsinsel

Deutscher Dom and even my mobile was able to make a good pic as Love is all we need

No child of mine

The other day I posted on Facebook a picture of me older then 15 years. It was part of the "Fotochallenge" where you have to post for five days each day one picture of yourself from a time 15 years and longer ago. Quite funny as most of us have to actually look out for the real photos and make a pic of them to get them on the computer or laptop. Yes, there was a time we only could make the pictures that way and we have been more careful in the way when we made one. It was to expensive to waste a photo. 

Anyway it made me think again of how a family is made and how much we discuss this these days and that some people still only call the so called traditional family a family- meaning : mother, father and a child or two. They say only this version leads to a lucky and happy life and only this way makes you a good human. 

Of course this is such bullshit as you always had different family constellations and those have been all good and children are able to enjoy life. 

I mean what is important for a child? Having two parents like mother and father as such or ... having a loving parent and someone you can trust and look up to. Someone who teach you important things in life and will listen when in need. 

Is it bad for children to have a father and a mother who are working mornings and evening and nights and have not much time left? Is it bad when a girl grows up at her fathers house with only him to look up to and he works full time? Is it bad when both parents travel along and take the kid with them and each time it has to get used to a new school? Is it bad when a grandmother or aunt takes care of you instead of a mother and a father? Is it bad when you grow up in a children's home?

No, all children can have a happy time, may it be hard sometimes and may they see the person who takes care of them not that much, but as long those people give love and really care and listen and teach and see you as a precious, you will become a good human of course. 

Thieves and murderer have come out of functional families and so called traditional families. 

They are in no way a guarantee that a child will be happy, a good human, someone we will look up to. 

And no child cares itself about who the person is, if the person is gay, women, man, old or young. All they want is to be able to trust you, to find home at your side and someone to ask and please for help, someone who will show and teach them.

Bad things happen in every family, no matter how the family is made. Yes, that means that no version is the best. No version is the only one and right one and as many call the traditional family of mother and father and two children- they forget that the first family they say they look up to and is the role model (Maria and Jesu...) they live after- actually has two dads and a mother who got a child in no typical naturally way (no sex) and had only one child. The model those people claim is actually very young and the most time of mankind we had all kinds of families. 

So... to all with different families- let's stay happy and never let anyone tell you, you are worth less, worthless or not real. 

LOVE & LIGTH

Workin' monday through friday

After a hard works week many of us try to calm down and get some rest and want to feel peace. 

But there is often not much time for it. We have to keep up with the housecleaning, buy the food for the next week, wash our clothes and then we have family and friends. 

How do we manage then to get some energy back, as we are working it of from monday to friday? Not to mention those who work 7 days or more in a row. And always the money problem in the back, the question what to do next, what to buy and what to plan and so on and on. Sometimes it seems other people have it more easier then you, but actually most of us have it the same way more or lesson. 

Sometimes we even wonder how big families make it through the day itself. Working all day and then working home for the children and that nothing breaks apart. 

How will we reach a peaceful moment? 

We try it with sport. We meditate and do yoga. We do it as much as we can and often make it a competition. Most time with ourself. 

Many people believe to get peace and be yourself is only possible on special places and just to reach on holidays. Even then they make it a competition, something they plan they have to, they must achieve. 

But they all forget that getting a minute to breath in and out and feel relax is nothing you can enforce. The more you try it, the less success you will have and the more you are on the way to depression and bad mood. Exactly what you don't wanted. 

So, many flee into religious. And make it a sport to pray and live after some rules they don't questioning. Maybe after a while some of those people are convince that they have found inner peace and the right way. Religious often does and have this effect on people. Especially in the beginning. 

Even when you try to be a monk you can be wrong with believing that you are in the middle of yourself every time. The truth is- no one is and will be, but that is o.k.. 

Most then say they do fight to keep control and to stay in the middle but fighting just cost energy and gives you hopeless depression on it's way. 

So one thing is to understand that you have to let go fighting, which does not mean to give up everything and yourself, it is more to let lose and enjoy the moment and take it as it comes and try to avoid to name it or even if you do, so name it and put it away and get back to the present, the moment you are in and search for the best and positive.  

And no, you don't need a place without noise, traffic, work, people surrounding you. All you have to do is to let those things gone buy and take them as a part of your reality. Then you will feel peace. Then you will have the way to relax and calm down and get energy back. 

So taking a walk can have this effect. Sitting in a coffee, and taste the drink for real and smell the air and maybe just close your eyes for a moment and let things just pass buy. Then trouble can be around you and you will still feel good. 

We have to remember more often that all is in flow and nothing last forever and you always have a choice, even know that it is not always the easy way and sometimes it is just to vote from two bad things. But when we did, we can go on and have the next chance. 

Also we should remember whatever bad happen, we can catch good moment by our self and if it just to buy and ice cream and enjoy the moment of luxury. 

This will then also be the secret to make it good in your job and to find always a best way to get through tuff times, even know this also sounds more easy as it is. We are humans and have learned a lot to make it hard. This won't always leave us so easy. 

I know that as I have to face many times unpopular situation and discussion in my job and also I must be able to take into not so nice situations. I also have to remember myself to let lose and find something different after the job to get back to the energy I need for a hard work. But also I try to have it good at work as much as possible with keeping my empathy, mood and try to stay relax as I have learned that nothing breaks down immediately. You always have time to relax and can always make it go round again if something went wrong or another way as expected. It's the challenge I take as such and then I always try to see that I work with people who stand on their own place. Not judging is a part of that. 

Not always easy. 

Communication is also very important. They need to know. Whatever you do or it is- talk and talk and stay calm and have a minimum of understanding but also I try to be truthful in how fast or how much we can change things in the situation we are in. 

In these days when things get more and more unclear, unsure and stressful it is so important for each to remember to relax as we feel in our shoulders when we have stressed our self to much, when we expect to much, when we rush to fast and we feel it with other sorts of pain. 

It has a reason why I recommend massage and physiotherapy. It is why I spend money on it, even thought there are other things I would like t spend money to but health is so important and we learn this far to less and far to many are not really aware of the importance. 

And yes do your sport, meditation, yoga etc. but do it freely, do it without hesitating and let lose of competition. Just do it and try to have fun. And if you have a bad day, make a break and try again or another time. Not everyday is a good day to meditate.... but the more you practice, the better you'll get, the easier it will be and even then be aware there will be days you just can't make it. There will be days your meditation is a hard try and that is all. Don't worry, like with sport and yoga, just take it as it is and go on. Next time it will be better again.

Love & Light

confession of a scarf addict...

Some people buy clocks, some people a hundred socks, some people buy watches and others glasses and some people buy paintings and others bags. I like to buy scarfs and have always to keep me away from it not to buy another one, and another one as there are so many and most are not that expensive, thought I look more and more out for where they are made and from who. When I put my spring and summer scarfs on the ground it does not look that much but I have already more then 25. Not a bit better is it with the autumn and winter scarfs. I really like to put them on and enjoy the colors, touch as most are made of very good quality. Silk, cotton and other mixes are to choose each day and of course kind of what clothes do I wear. I am not a fashion people but a bit of style do I call mine. 

And as I said I could buy much more if I would not stop myself from doing so. 

Those scarfs come from everywhere. Bali, Sweden, England, Germany and with this I don't mean where they are made, it's where I have bought them and will buy them in the future. Of course each new place is a potential treat. 

As my friend and family knows my love for such, they also make me happy giving me them as a present. It is never wrong. Almost never. 

I wonder when to stop buying as I see so many I would immediately like to have but space is needed and I already have less of all, there is simple no place left to keep a scarf, even thought they don't take much and can be put in every spot if you want- but I like it not so messy. 

How is it with you? Do you have similar things you collect? How do you deal with that? 

Put them all on the wall? Have extra furniture for them? 

It is sure all easier when you live alone- maybe- as long you have a flat or place big enough. Or do your things land in the garage? I could not do that with my scarfs as I wear them much to often. Who would not?

Now just two pics to get an idea what it looks like having a bit more then the average amount.... :-)

And as always do I which you a lot of Love & Light and this was a very easy going post ;-)