A Rant — In recent years, the stories of friendships, projects, networks and collectives that fail have been piling up. Because of their own claims, because of questionable practices, because of leaders who don’t walk their own talk, because of the silence of others. Left, right, above and below we read about “collective…

Ein Rant — In den letzten Jahren häufen sich die Geschichten von Freundschaften, Projekten, Netzwerken und Kollektiven, die scheitern. An ihren eigenen Ansprüchen, an fragwürdigen Praktiken, an Führungspersönlichkeiten, die ihren eigenen Talk nicht walken, am Schweigen der anderen. Links, rechts, oben und unten lesen wir von ”kollektiver Führung”, “participatory leadership” und dem wichtigen…

oder “Das achtzehnte Kamel”. Zum 80. Geburtstag meines Vaters. — Eines Tages las ich irgendwo eine dieser Geschichten voll Weisheit und Moral, die einem das Leben und die Welt erklären sollen. Sie erzählt von einem alten Sufi, der auf seinem Kamel durch die Wüste reitet. Er trifft in einer Oase auf drei Männer, die sich streiten und kein Ende zu…

once upon a time, my favourite cup broke into pieces. my brother had given it to me, it once had belonged to someone he loved. the handle was broken off already. he didn’t want to throw it away, so when he moved houses, i took it. i came to love…

In the beginning of 2018 i wrote the article below, which has been published in a german magazine called ”OYA”, Nr. 47. Authors having been featured before or who had written for the magazine before were asked to write about what was essential to them. A few days ago i…

I stumbled over the term the first time when i attended a grief ritual held by Naf Tali in berlin in december 2018. When he said it, it hit home right away. We were 8 or maybe 10 people, coming together for the first time, to grieve together. I had…

2020. Multiple Crisis. Multiple Descriptions. Layers of possibilities. So. How do we proceed? Here’s my #solsticemove present for us. As one path of many into the wilds. Resting on my harddrive since 2011 waiting to be put into something shareable and waiting for the right moment and the right community…