Meeting the old lady

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  She is an 86-year-old lady: proud and brilliant. Her body is fragile, but her mind is rather strong. Before I met Olga Charova, she has been lying in bed for three months, being very sick and loosing a lot of weight. I didn’t expect her to leave her home and to come to the […]

Being prince and princess

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This is my prince I want to kiss. Will he be my man? He will be bright, beautiful and sensitive. Very simple, isn’t it? Kissing the frog and starting a relationship is very easy, too. What seems to be more complicated is certainly all what comes after. I wish my prince to be different than […]

Laughing

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  Fortunately, my two boys are rather bright. Even too bright when I want them to spend less time on their computers or smartphones and when I want to lock them for a certain time. They are hiding their machines telling me totally innocently they haven’t seen them for a while. But it is great […]

Fine mustache

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  Apparently, springtime means mice time, and black tomcat started its hunting season yesterday. It was meant to be a big gift: a mouse on the step of the staircase. Two eyes, a nose with fine mustache hair and a small mouth were looking at me when I came home. The rest of the body […]

The art of being creative

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  Aren’t they wonderful? Three pieces of art. But what is art? When it hangs or stands in the museum? Or when it is exposed to the public in a school building? Being an artist is another discussion. Where does “being an artist” begin? When someone dresses, behaves like an artist? When someone creates an […]

Smiling colors

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  There are colors everywhere in India. I love it and I often find color combinations, which I had never dreamt of in Europe. Wherever I walk, I’d love to take pictures and catch those colors. They are smiling at your face and you cannot do anything but smiling too. Here in Europe, everything is […]

Point of view

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  Green isn’t the color I like very much. But when I saw this lamp in India, I changed my mind. It doesn’t often happen that I change my mind. I like to stick to the things I am used to. Since years I keep this painted wooden elephant from India in my kitchen, the […]

No barriers

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  They play around; they have big fun. The little one grew up in India, the older one in Switzerland. The one speaks Tibetan, the other one Swiss German. Both know a few words in English but not much. The little one is living in a boarding school in Dharamsala, the older goes to a […]

Flexible mind

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    Three years ago, Ramesh was selling his beautiful stone carved statues and buddhas. One year later, he was running a yoga school, and this year, besides giving his daily yoga classes, he is earning money with a little resort in a marvelous garden – together with a friend. For me, he symbolizes flexibility, […]

Between dusk and dawn

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  Running to the bus stop this morning, I couldn’t prevent myself from taking a picture in front of our neighbor’s house. Today’s dawn touched a string in my mind because it reflects my inner world. There is light at the horizon. But I don’t fully trust that it will lighten up as the dawn […]