Reading Time: 5 minutes Oh 2020, what a year, what a year… In this article, I collected the stories that marked me this year. Non-fiction books, in random order: Fiction Articles Videos Podcasts I would like to conclude with a quote from Good Economics for Hard Times: “Defining people by their problems is turning circumstance into essence. It denies hope.” And maybe hope can rise like seeds from the ashes of this year.
Reading Time: < 1 minute And no more left dreams were right With no more hopes nor aims in sight. I chopped my dreams, I chopped them small Until they were all bleeding, all, all. With no more dreams to spare, How could I learn to live, to love, to dare? I buried the ashes of my dreams. Some were rotten. Some were seeds.
Reading Time: < 1 minute I have it in me This idea that wants to break free. The snow Of the A4 Says: “Come, I’ll be your home.” Black, tiny letters start running wild like a poem. Words battling shadows, seeking the light. Unfolding their tales in the quiet of night. Until the web Of the ink Says: “Stop, here comes the dot.”
Reading Time: < 1 minute And maybe a word is more than a thing. It seems to laugh, it seems to cry. It is all wonders and is all a lie. And maybe we are beings drawn in words. Choking on their meanings blurred. A drop of poison in the sweetest honey. Yeast fermenting in hope and money. Knife that slays or weakly sighs. Bridges forming, crossing eyes. And in the end, what is a word? Playdough.
Reading Time: 2 minutes One of my happiest childhood moments was when I got lost in books. After having a child, children’s books made me feel like I was reborn as a child, too. One of the most requested books in our household is In the Town All Year Round by Sussane Berner Rotraut. This was my first exposure to wimmelbooks, a special form of picture books with hidden objects. Dozens of small everyday scenes are represented within one image. Every page has something new to discover, adding …