Die kühleren Temperaturen sind zurück, die Zahlen steigen … Zeit für den Bücherherbst und den passenden Quarantini, part II!
I’m not sure if I want to recommend the half-litre take away version during a London cab ride, but I definitely do ask you to use aged r(h)um … it simply is more better, especially for autumn – think: color of fading japanese maple leaves!
The Colebrooke Row 69 recipe is a shining light in times of darkness. And I’d like to quote the grand master here, although only half-way in context: “Drink three to five of these slowly.” À la votre!
It doesn’t matter if you drink it in Havana, London or Tokyo, but I recommend aged rhum.
“Men speaks many different languages, the king said
Children speak only one: the mother language
Mothers don’t speak; they hear
For men don’t know what to say, but this is okay
For older people don’t hear nor do they speak
For having come before, they learned how to see
How to decay, while they observe” [1]
Sometimes we are above, sometimes below, but we are Eternally Unfinished, even if we knew ALL the languages, as I sometimes wish.
The second guided tour I had the pleasure to experience with Juan wasn’t any bit less intriguing than the first, which was this one:
I am therefor very happy that a centrepiece of that exhibit has found its way into my realm, where it can remind us of the most universal und powerful language of all: silence.
As Juan emphasized back then, the skull is a symbol of life, not of death. As we unearth it, layer by layer, we uncover and discover his-story, auf Deutsch: die Ge-schichte(n). Just as we ourselves are many-layered stacks of stories, some of them lost, some hidden, some fragile and fading, but some strong enough to provide us with a skeleton that supports us for some time.
Which stories will remain?
The skull (category: Brains) is a multi-layered symbol of life.
And those you fear neither Death nor Hell nor the Florence Foster Jenkins of Finnish Tango go back to www.petersch.at and make sure their browser doesn’t block audio autoplay. Qui vit sans folie … (category: Ears) 🙂
[1] from Juan Arata: “What makes us human? – A model of Migra Tion”, Booklet for Ruberoid Festival 25-26 Sep 2015, ACUD Kunsthaus, Berlin
360Wp of solar power are now contributing to such things as heating water for tea and coffee, brightening up the kitchen and kneading bread dough on sunny afternoons. Thanks Rudi for technical counseling!
Keinenfalls eine do-nothing-machine ist die Espressomaschine wenn sie mit Strom aus dem eigenen Solarkraftwerk betrieben wird! Danke, liebe Sonne, er ist rrrrrrröstfrisch sag ich da nur!
Danke Moni und Hansi für diesen wunderbaren (Hochzeits)Tag im Grünen, der kaum 😉 schöner hätte sein können!
Sehr sehr intensive Farben! Man beachte auch die Seifenblasen vor der Zirbe (links oben). Und dem Stier sind wir ja auch noch entkommen am Ende – Love Saves the Day sag ich nur!
Ein sehr gutes Beerenjahr! Insgesamt fast 2kg an Himbeeren, roten und schwarzen Ribiseln und Ogrosln (Stachelbeeren) von 4 Sträuchern. Sogar 10 (!) Honigbeeren waren heuer dabei … allerdings sind sie geschmacklich eher … ahem, grausig. Die roten Ribiseln wurden in einen Kuchen verbacken bzw. gegessen, die schwarzen Ribiseln sowie die Himbeeren für den Winter eingefroren, und die Ogrosln waren beteiligt an einer sogenannten Marmeladen-Sitzung (English: jam session). 🙂
Neuköllner Gartenbeeren in verschiedenen Stadien und Beobachtungszuständen.
