#1 striking a chord with me - Self-Portraits, or a diary of the things I have loved to, still love to or still would love to do ...
As a small child, when I was asked, what I wanted to become or to do or where I wanted to live, I said "All and Everything and Everywhere" ... which caused always a small shock and led to words of "oh, life will teach you to be humble, girl, you will learn, that you wont get all you want, not possible, the world is hard etc".
But it felt so right for me, that I could never hold myself back from saying it ... :-)
After many decades - and of having worked and built up a lot and now changing my life a bit to gain more time for things I want to do just out of joy - I felt, I want to make myself a gift in form of a diary (or maybe better called a annuary :-) ) - and to look back- and forward to see, which of all these "ALLs and EVERYTHINGs", I would have loved to do, finally really did, I still love to do and yet want to do ... or maybe just forgot, that they ever existed.
And, while I started reflecting about it, I remembered suddenly so so so many things and was amazed, how many I did, how many are still left to be explored ... and it brings so much joy back to me and eagerness to move on.
And at the same time so many different people, who were precious to me, whom I loved or who loved me during all these stages and phases and episodes, came also back to my mind - and bring even more joy back to me.
I want to share a bit more of me here on flickr, where I have met some of the most creative people, amazing artists, open-minded souls and open-hearted humans ever ...
So - here it is: A kind of series of "Self-Portraits", not in form of photos about my face, but about my inner and outer life.
If you find the time to read a bit, it makes me happy, if not - we are all very busy nowadays - I am fine with it, and it still makes me happy that you are visiting.
#1 - My Guitar, a beautiful and dark shining Lady
I bought her with the first noteworthy amount of self-earned money, about the age of 15/16. I worked at an archaeological excavation (viking villages, northern germany) during school holidays with 3 friends, a cold and rainy spring. Wow, that was hard work for a young girl, shoveling earth around for about 9 hours a day. Fortunately the head of the excavation fell for me, lol - and I was allowed to draw maps of the site, which meant at least, to sit from time to time.
To extinct my ideas of studying archaeology (having in mind of course sites like the pyramids or finding dinosaur-bones) another job at an excavation was necessary, lol, the same story (tired bones, hurting muscles, sore feet and palms from shoveling - and even the "head of the excavation - falling for me"-part, another one, btw ...I had forgotten about it completely. I was pretty shy and never thought of myself to be sweet at that time, lol)
I loved this guitar, I was so deterrmined to learn and taught myself to play it, and - as these were times without internet, I had to collect lyrics or notes about the songs I wanted to play, whereever possible.
The guitar was with me during many many years of moving around - and still is.
And lately I reactivated her, changed a broken string, my fingers stiff, but I still love to play, and I am practising again.... and it's just wonderful.
Here a song, one of the first i learned to play then.
Here comes the sun - Beatles.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6j4TGqVl5g
#1 striking a chord with me - Self-Portraits, or a diary of the things I have loved to, still love to or still would love to do ...
As a small child, when I was asked, what I wanted to become or to do or where I wanted to live, I said "All and Everything and Everywhere" ... which caused always a small shock and led to words of "oh, life will teach you to be humble, girl, you will learn, that you wont get all you want, not possible, the world is hard etc".
But it felt so right for me, that I could never hold myself back from saying it ... :-)
After many decades - and of having worked and built up a lot and now changing my life a bit to gain more time for things I want to do just out of joy - I felt, I want to make myself a gift in form of a diary (or maybe better called a annuary :-) ) - and to look back- and forward to see, which of all these "ALLs and EVERYTHINGs", I would have loved to do, finally really did, I still love to do and yet want to do ... or maybe just forgot, that they ever existed.
And, while I started reflecting about it, I remembered suddenly so so so many things and was amazed, how many I did, how many are still left to be explored ... and it brings so much joy back to me and eagerness to move on.
And at the same time so many different people, who were precious to me, whom I loved or who loved me during all these stages and phases and episodes, came also back to my mind - and bring even more joy back to me.
I want to share a bit more of me here on flickr, where I have met some of the most creative people, amazing artists, open-minded souls and open-hearted humans ever ...
So - here it is: A kind of series of "Self-Portraits", not in form of photos about my face, but about my inner and outer life.
If you find the time to read a bit, it makes me happy, if not - we are all very busy nowadays - I am fine with it, and it still makes me happy that you are visiting.
#1 - My Guitar, a beautiful and dark shining Lady
I bought her with the first noteworthy amount of self-earned money, about the age of 15/16. I worked at an archaeological excavation (viking villages, northern germany) during school holidays with 3 friends, a cold and rainy spring. Wow, that was hard work for a young girl, shoveling earth around for about 9 hours a day. Fortunately the head of the excavation fell for me, lol - and I was allowed to draw maps of the site, which meant at least, to sit from time to time.
To extinct my ideas of studying archaeology (having in mind of course sites like the pyramids or finding dinosaur-bones) another job at an excavation was necessary, lol, the same story (tired bones, hurting muscles, sore feet and palms from shoveling - and even the "head of the excavation - falling for me"-part, another one, btw ...I had forgotten about it completely. I was pretty shy and never thought of myself to be sweet at that time, lol)
I loved this guitar, I was so deterrmined to learn and taught myself to play it, and - as these were times without internet, I had to collect lyrics or notes about the songs I wanted to play, whereever possible.
The guitar was with me during many many years of moving around - and still is.
And lately I reactivated her, changed a broken string, my fingers stiff, but I still love to play, and I am practising again.... and it's just wonderful.
Here a song, one of the first i learned to play then.
Here comes the sun - Beatles.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6j4TGqVl5g