Day: November 11, 2013

Something’s Stirring

Etwas regt sich If you’ve been following me for a while, you’ll know that all year, I’ve been having trouble with my home (water damage, turning into mold). These couple of months things have gotten so bad that, yes, I had to abandon the place and move elsewhere, to stop getting sick from the poor living conditions at home. And I was told that there’ll be no way of solving the problems with home … But now, hope’s stirring, because today, there was a knock on my door (that is the door that I borrowed together with the apartment I’m borrowing these days from my friends who are absent for a couple of months). And the person belonging to that knock is one of the people responsible for keeping our building together. He wanted to inspect my apartment (yet once more!), and says that maybe tomorrow he’ll send a couple of workers to see what can be done. Now, I know that “tomorrow” can mean a whole lot of things here (it meant an entire …

Journaling Café: Trends

Schreibstube: Trends Trends are all around us. We see them as soon as we step out of the door, we may see them surrounding us in our very own homes. Today, I’ve gathered a couple of questions/prompts that may help you reflect on what role trends play in your own life. Trends umgeben uns überall. Wir sehen sie sobald wir vor die Haustür treten. Sie mögen uns sogar in unseren eigenen vier Wänden umgeben. Für heute habe ich mal ein paar Fragen/Anregungen zusammengetragen, die dir helfen, darüber nachzudenken, welche Rolle Trends in deinem Leben spielen.     Ideen für Schreiber: Trends Bist du ein Trendsetter oder jemand, der Trends folgt? Gehst du immer mit dem Trend, oder machst du manchmal auch dein eigenes Ding? Welcher Trend gefällt dir in letzter Zeit besonders gut? Auf welchen Trend könntest du gerne verzichten? Welches ist dein liebster Trend (Scrapbooking, Mode, Dekor, oder was immer sonst dir einfällt)?   Of course, I couldn’t be giving you prompts without presenting you with a page of my own, so here’s how …