presidential debate

last Friday i watched the 1st presidential debate
between Senators Obama and McCain

I am truly afraid of McCain!
It is just scary to hear his international politics and strategics
and it is just scary to even see him
his attitude and old-fashioned close-mindlessness
his KGB stories, and his POW stale tales

God helps this country if the republicans win again
I truly hope that American people get over this war
and vote for Obama

war and violence are so 20th century!
material richness and over-acquisition is so overrated!

i cannot wait for peace to take over this world
for Americans and other warrior power-trippy countries
to get into their populations true moral values

i cannot wait for rich people to become an old stupid fashion
and for humility and good natured intentions to become again the sign of how a good being is, not how big is your car

so anyway enough of my mad ranting
and hippie dreams of less social unfairness
and here judge for yourself

which of these men has a more 'positive' over all
point of view of the world
who will fit better into this 21th century
who thinks of 'talking' and not just keep on fighting and supporting a nuclear war



and yes!! we are 'the' super-humans
we have conquered nature and animal kingdoms
we can kill buffaloes with 1 single gun shot
and we have the power to destroy the world about 20 times
with our super nuclear weapons
we are really clever!!!
and i just ask always myself
wouldn't 1 time of destroying the earth will be enough?

if McCain gets into the power
sadly, I see a catastrophe coming into this country
and another catastrophe looming over this world

why humans can relate to people like Bush or McCain?
don't they have relatives??? I cannot believe
Bush daughters don't point him how much of an asshole he is!
I cannot believe these power-tripping men have NO families
to point at them: "hey Dad, or husband, you are sending your own soldiers to die, you are killing our country"... when it comes to politicians, I have never trusted, many of them raise into power and go crazy... OK, but why nobody around them stop them? for me, worse than Hitler (an extreme example here) were the ones who supported him, the guy was psycho indeed, but, why all his followers followed him? the scary part are the supporters... I truly trust that American people will open their eyes and forget about McCain and Bush and start trusting the world again

so much for a political Sunday morning

pardon!

Alles Gute

wünsche ich dir
Auf für immer wie heute

Herr Thilo,
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag!
Happy Birthday to you!
¡Feliz Cumpleaños!



& many years of many of your wunderbare 'clicks'

Autumn spiralling in G-Schlüssel

the Summer is officially over
and the 1st day of Autumn
left me Spiralling down
on a

Bassschlüssel
bass clef
clave de Fa



still i carry around my wrist
a small enough joyful remainder
with a little white flower
and i dream of now distant days
of desert days, with red rocks
and soundly open smiles
it all sounded deep and strong
like in

G-Schlüssel
treble clef
clave de Sol

today the Fall felt and the whole day
i sneezed, a hay-feverish day
head stuffed, heart in complain

so a
spiralling its tune down

'cause spiralling in
i can fall deep in melancholia
and the Autumn celebrate

just spiralling
just spiralling with
ambiguous, darkish, melancholic
but beautiful and poetic mister
Antony and The Johnsons
and so on
here a song...
spirall yourself along

will see mister Antony and the Johnsons with the
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
this coming October
and we'll spiralling down
i am sure it will be a rather different experience

sunny quiet Sonntag

today was one of those
lovely quiet Sundays


[and during the cooking of das Frühstück, a beloved voice came through, filling the eggs' recipe with joy]

an introspective day
with quiet home shores
the smell of laundry and the soft sun
reminded me of the peace


[i did laundry and realized i have way too many light green clothing (?)]

that peaces that seems to hide in between home-cooked meals
and quiet afternoons smelling of books and tea



slowly one can feel
the hot turbulence of the Summer
surrendering to the more calmed
languid moods of the Autumn



and slowly on this lazy late Summer, i can feel
as i contemplate shadows through my window



the memoir of your soft kiss
and the birds fly around again
in a little dizzy bliss



a sunny Sonntag sneaky feeling

por las mañanas

morgens passieren
mornings happen
las mañanas ocurren



"All is worthwhile if the soul is not small."
-Fernando Pessoa

Friday, a lateish September night

and finally
here
the 1st time in a while
a Friday night
un cántaro y tequila
the top of my fridge
& my little plant

this night smells
of warm September summer
of water with clay
and of memoirs of guests
die Herren, later, my mom



teas, smiles, roads, besos
and laughs
this summer is fading away
but not the days in my heart
and summers will come
along with bread, trees, breeze, and wine

and yes
it's been a while
but as always
am back

and restart as left
w/a
Prost
Cheers
and
Salud
to my 1st words plastered here
in this warm September night


Disclaimer: this post is designed to be read while drinking some good refreshing beverage, either a hot fresh tea, a cold Bier, a glass of good French red wine, little sips of Tequila, or a lemonade w/sparkling water, ...worst case

enthusiastic

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
- Einstein

Today I found this Einstein quote in the page of a great programmer, mister Paul Graham, and I posted it here because I felt a little “enthusiastic” about it and a little “enthusiastic” about posting something in this lately somehow abandoned blog, and yes! because I agree that either wealth nor sumptuousness nor idleness move a soul or the world, but exactly the feeling of fervor, passion, or gusto we feel towards something or not…

Therefore, the pursuit of art, of knowledge, a lifetime of not-yet-acquired-enlightenment-chasing...
[and]

Today with an Einstein quote and while reading mister Paul Graham, the little creative worm in my head had sprung again, after this long beloved vacation, I am getting ready to learn again, and to read, and to be enthusiastic about those little things you can't buy nor share, the drive to take a picture, or write a sentence, or compose a tune, those desires are intimately shaped in the intimacy of one's own soul
and so they are these
Tuesday night reflection's
lost in this World-Wide-Web
[and]

Cheers to you!
und Prost!
y ¡Salud! también

Tiffany's wedding

warm breeze and fresh love
melted today in a summer August afternoon
at the Balboa park







Tiffany and Andrew's lovely wedding
that smelled of sweet lemon and white chocolate cake
with fresh-apple-scented young smiling love

not 23 but...

das Meer
the sea
el mar



under the pier, Ocean Beach - San Diego, California

[click on the photo for 'the' full size effect]

[frustated notes of a finally-coming-back
photographer with a dead site]
i am not sure what is going on
with 23hq.com but i cannot upload
JPG format?
strange...
nevertheless
und hier

unser gemeinsamer Sommer

unser gemeinsamer Sommer
our Summer together
nuestro verano juntos

i spent almost 3 weeks on vacation
i haven't taken a vacation this long in many years
i shared my time with 2 wonderful German guests

the turns and twists of USA
its freeways and highways took us
to Arizona, the Grand Canyon
and then Nevada, Las Vegas
and all around Southern California

here one of my favorite fotos
from the trip
the border between Arizona & California
where it all seemed to have started
and...



magic wonderful times!
a Summer to remember
this of 2008

and now my heart beats
with a different rhythm
one slightly stucked
i have a bad case of
the Thilo's blues



a missing feeling
yet a distant smile
to warm up and cuddle
when comes the night