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weissensee

The Jewish Cemetery in Weißensee, Berlin
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Afterwards
Nights they break into our deepest sleep. A crack overhead makes us jump. Those summer storms. Glimpsing behind the curtain into the garden, we see the insistent gigantic drops splashing on the ground, churning soil to mud, blackening our carefully tended flowers. Then the drops merging to become a sheet, a waterfall, nothing like rain.…
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Victory
I want to live in a world of win-wins. But it seems that there is no chance, no chance at all. Like we are stuck in a never-ending boxing match in which only the opponent changes periodically. Only our strength is called for, not our love – that is our weakness. Who will be the…
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klavierwelten – the world of the piano

Piano workshop in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin
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coyoacàn

Coyoacàn, Mexico City
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gesellschaftshaus grünau

Society House in Grünau, Berlin
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Been there, done that…
Looking through my old scraps from the eighties before going to the blockade at Büchel, I came across this newspaper cutting of me handing a letter to the duty officer at RAF Cottesmore. Not sure of the date of this action, but I also – digging deeper into my boxes – found a flyer for…
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mull

Isle of Mull, Argyll, Scotland
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Pushing the States to the Negotiating Table
In Helsinki at this time of year, the sun rises just after 9am and sets again at 3pm. Our Finnish hosts told us that we were lucky that the snow had come already, to lighten up the all-pervading darkness by reflecting what little light there is. Already, after only a short time, the snow was…
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Destroyed Islands
50th anniversary of last atmospheric nuclear test “Tightrope” Fifty years ago today, “Tightrope” the last of 215 US atmospheric nuclear tests took place. This was the final blast in one of the worst chapters in nuclear history that began sixty years ago, on November 1st 1952, when the first hydrogen bomb was tested on an…