Tag Archive for ‘Life’

Winter solstice

Winter solstice

Today is the shortest day of the year. Sun raise at 09:06 and sets 15:21 here at 58°N, already tomorrow will be one minute longer. To my surprise it came with some light after a period with dark grey skies. To top it all, I had the afternoon off and there was 10 centimetres of snow.

Don’t tell my wife but, I climbed a mountain to get some nice photos of the windmill in the low standing and pale sunlight. Takes some time to get up but getting down is quite fast in the snow.

It is better to get down safely than gracefully, ha de Gött!

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Travel

Travel

Finally the Covid restrictions been lifted and we are allowed to travel again. Feels good but not without conflicting emotions, because what excessive travel does to the climate. I’m trying to move to train travel rather than flying but for some strange reason it is much more difficult to book a ticket to Berlin by train than by airplane!

This year took me to Trollhättan, Göteborg and Halmstad in Sweden. To Cologne, Siegburg and Berlin in Germany. To Helsingör in Denmark. Some travel for holiday and some for work but the camera must always be in the luggage.

The traveller gets to read the whole book, the one who stays home only get to read the first page. Ha de Gött!

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Faith and Hope

Faith and Hope

Faith and hope
since the first dawn of 
Homo Sapiens, the thinking man
the need has been around
to explain the why, to make heads or tails
why are we here
bring comfort in the unavoidable end
a sense of making sense of things out of sense

Faith and hope
since the dawn of
civilisation, the social human
the urge has been strong
to compete and win, to conqour and divide
how much can I pile
a legacy to, cheat the definite end
a sense of making sense of things out of sense

Faith and hope
since the dawn of
religions, the summing human
the misuse and abuse been the rule
to control the tribe, the masses
to fearlessly run towards the bitter end
reduced to useful idiots in the hands of
senseless prophets without any sense

Faith and hope
Hijacked to the dark side

Keep faith and hope but watch out for the false prophets, ha de Gött!

Inspired by John Malones poem Hope.

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Advent

Advent

It starts already in September

sneaks up on you

when you least expect

you freeze, a shiver down your spine

but there, in the windings of the brain

the deceiving jingling pops up

welcome as zits in a teenage mirror

You try to fight it off, but then

but then in the shop

the frantic wailing from Mariah

all I want for Christmas is youOUOUOUOUOUOUOUOU

it sticks in your poor brain

like chewing gum under your shoe

You flee out the door while trying to keep your lunch

trying to calm down with a nice coffee

only to be punched in the face by

the ultimate torture

last Christmas I gave you my heart

a Wham in your gut

then you know, you have to succumb

to three months of terror

stumbling off, hollow eyes and pale

whistling jingle bells, jingle bells

Let the celebration begin, ha de Gött!

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Patience

Patience

November with its darkness is not an optimal time for a photographer but with some patience and luck there are some rewards. I waited almost two hours in the cold north east wind for the light from the sun to find a gap in the clouds. Quoting a famous beer commercial from our Danish friends “worth waiting for”.

Good things come to those who wait, ha de Gött!

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