When Miha and I arrived back in Bad Belzig from Berlin it was quite late already. We had rented a small private apartment just outside the ZEGG premises. (The ZEGG is a community where we did parts of our own NVC training.) In Berlin we had been to the IAMX concert and we were in a good mood. So we were… Read more →
Donald and his Voters: A Nonviolent Perspective on Trump’s Election
I felt a bit queasy for the first time when I read an article by Michael Moore in the German weekly Die Zeit. The Oscar winning filmmaker and champion of left-wingers around the globe listed five reasons why he believed Donald Trump would be elected President. I swallowed my queasiness and turned to my rational mind. My mind assured me:… Read more →
The Night Watchman, my Car and the Rule of the Road
I am parking the car by our band rehearsal space, directly in front of the main gate. I am a bit unnerved because it’s late and I won’t get the key to the gate at this time. This means I can’t drive the car in the yard. Instead I’ll have to carry the instruments through the side entrance, a good… Read more →
The Rice Milk Affair 2
Click here for part 1 of the story I am imagining how it would have happened in the past… …..So I am standing in the kitchen in the morning. My brother is visiting. There’s obviously no rice milk left and – yes – it MUST have been my brother who emptied the package and neatly deposited it in the garbage.… Read more →
The Rice Milk Affair
What, no more rice milk? I am standing in the kitchen in the morning. My brother is visiting. My drowsy morning standard move has just led my hand to an empty spot in the fridge where I usually keep my rice milk. I look at my hand, then my gaze wanders to the kitchen table, then to the trash can.… Read more →