What have you learned? Really learned? How can you abandon all that scar tissue and still be sure to remember its history? What have you learned?
Keine Woche in Norwegen ohne Abenteuer. Nach dem grandiosen Auftakt in Woche 1, als ich meinen Schlüssel beim Laufen verlor, haben auch die folgenden Wochen keine Wünsche offen gelassen. Der Schlüssel ist bislang nichtwieder aufgetaucht und ich friste mein Dasein nun nur mit dem Zweitschlüssel. Was natürlich ebenso gut geht. Aber es war natürlich klar, dass ich, die tatsächlich noch nie einen Schlüssel verloren hat (was an sich schon unglaublich ist), hier meinen Einstand geben würde. Außerdem noch in Woche 1: Durch wildes herumdrücken auf der Fernbedienung heble ich den Fernseher aus und kann ihn auch nach mehrstündiger Problembehandlung nicht wieder zum Laufen bringen.
In Woche 2 sperre ich erstmal zielsicher meine EC-Karte. Was an sich schon unangenehm wäre. Allerdings kann ich aus unerfindlichen Gründen mit der Kreditkarte kein Geld abheben und schiebe deswegen dezente Panik vor dem Moment, an dem die Karte im Supermarkt mal nicht funktioniert. Aber: Ich schaffe es mein knappes Bargeld bis zur Fahrt nach Haugesund zu verwalten und dort finde ich dann tatsächlich einen Geldautomaten, der ein paar Banknoten ausspuckt.
Das ist in Woche 3. Wo ich meine Registrierung in Norwegen über die Bühne bringe und sogar eine Identifikationsnummer beantrage. Auch wenn sich das nicht ganz so simpel gestaltet ohne Adresse. Aber offenbar haben die hier doch ein gewisses System und jedes Haus und Appartment hat eine Verwaltungsnummer. Ob mich hier die Post mit meiner Identifikationsnummer findet, ist noch ungewiss. Immerhin fehlt immer noch ein Briefkasten.
Und dann diese Woche. In der mein Abfluss und der von Stina, die neben mir wohnt, verstopft war. Und zwar derartig, dass unsere Duschen eher Ähnlichkeit mit einer Kloake hatten. Brrr. Aber nach 5 Stunden (die wir übrigens nicht im Haus verbrachten), hatte der örtliche Klempner das Problem behoben und nachdem ich dann noch eine Stunde ins Badschrubben investiert hatte, war auch dieser Zwischenfall Geschichte.
Es bleibt also ereignisreich. Mal schauen, was nächste Woche passiert...
Freitag, September 27, 2013
Donnerstag, September 26, 2013
I am waging war
I bleed my
city
its milky
way
of
illuminated windows
is the backdrop
for my
shuffling step
my barefoot
verse
my sweet
escape
Out here
the cow
bells are ringing
the lights
are fewer
are distinct
Who am I
without the
constant noise,
the stream
of countless
human
experience?
What is my
name
when there’s
no need
for names?
Are the
mountains calling
for my step
when the
sun sets
without a
hint of orange?
Or am I
hearing voices?
Has my
wonder left me
already?
I can still
hear the beat
the pulse
of the
universe
dancing –
There are
sparks in the sky!
From a
bonfire
not a
short-circuit heart…
How am I
going to survive
on peace of
mind
and solid
ground?
I bleed my
city
and pray
for acid
rain.
Sonntag, September 15, 2013
Inevitabilities
If life works out the way we imagine it and reproduce it day by day, we will wake up 20 years from now and we will have kids that we long dreamed about and fought for, children that we are passionate about and that we occasionally neglect, sons and daughters that we love and who at times take a backseat to our own confusions. We will have children and we will be divorced. Divorced after having found one to build a home with, after madly falling in love and nights of passionate sex, after negotiating values and traditions and living room curtains, after realizing that while we might choose to stay with one person, we can still fall for others. We will be divorced and all practical about it, now on the lookout again - not for the one, but for someone. Someone who knows that linearity is a construct.
We will wake up 20 years from now with a job that we've grown into and that we like sometimes and in which we are somebody, but also a job that keeps us wondering if there is something else calling for us. Something that can be all new and exciting again with the nausea and the euphoria of beginning... In 20 years we will have built a house or furnished a flat. There will be pictures on the walls and boxes containing all old memories in the attic. After years of cluttering up the rooms with all our belongings, we will have made space for all the things we are not and it will look so neat, so sophisticated that it will be a tie between appearing spiritual and just feeling empty.
If life plays out the way we write screenplays, then that is where we'd end up. And maybe we will. But even then it'd be nothing like we imagine it now. Because life is not the sum of our history. The present is not connected to the past. Not really. We like to think that it is. But if we'll wake up in 20 years, after starting a family and wrecking a marriage, after establishing a career and building a house - chances are, we'll still be the same. Inevitably.
We will wake up 20 years from now with a job that we've grown into and that we like sometimes and in which we are somebody, but also a job that keeps us wondering if there is something else calling for us. Something that can be all new and exciting again with the nausea and the euphoria of beginning... In 20 years we will have built a house or furnished a flat. There will be pictures on the walls and boxes containing all old memories in the attic. After years of cluttering up the rooms with all our belongings, we will have made space for all the things we are not and it will look so neat, so sophisticated that it will be a tie between appearing spiritual and just feeling empty.
If life plays out the way we write screenplays, then that is where we'd end up. And maybe we will. But even then it'd be nothing like we imagine it now. Because life is not the sum of our history. The present is not connected to the past. Not really. We like to think that it is. But if we'll wake up in 20 years, after starting a family and wrecking a marriage, after establishing a career and building a house - chances are, we'll still be the same. Inevitably.
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