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Thankfulness of the Japanese

28/11/2016

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"When you grab your chopsticks, you should thank all nature and living things, the emperor and your parents." This passage from the Koukou Michibiki Gusa (1812) resonates very much with us. Maybe besides of the emperor ;-) ...


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Thankfulness Of The Pilgrims

27/11/2016

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The First Thanksgiving | wikipedia

It has been 25 years since my then one and only Thanks Giving Dinner. We had turkey filled with chestnuts, which was delicious. I had been invited by my friend Thomas and his American partner. Last Thursday Sarah gave a party to celebrate the day together with some friends.


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Throwing Seeds

26/11/2016

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Poetry Stone Circle with Haiku Poems near Creetown | click the photo to read more
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Austere Beauty

24/11/2016

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Yesterday we had a wonderful meditation and a vibrant conversation during the following lunch with Sarah and her friends Jacky and Sue. In the afternoon we three went to the beach nearby in Carsluith ...


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Life is a Pilgrimage

23/11/2016

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Being an Earth Pilgrim is a documentary series of conversations that chronicle and celebrate the life and work of teacher, peace activist and leader, Satish Kumar. The message at the heart of his teachings is that ...


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Greenspace Dedicated To Peace

22/11/2016

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The first time we saw a "hidden" garden was in Paris on our pilgrimage to the World Climate Conference 2015. It was a small community garden, nicknamed "Jardin de Poètes" after it's famous big brother. ...


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Contemplating Time

21/11/2016

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Every hour is a strech of land.
​I want to dig into it with the plough.
I want to throw love into it, thoughts and talks,
thereby fruit will be borne.


​I am in bed with a cold for three days now. Alone time, whereas we are together with people most of the time since we left our home. Looking at the beautiful blanket that covers me, I remember Tony our dear friend from Baldegg (Switzerland) who introduced me to a poem of Jörg Zink. I tried to translate the most touching lines of it, suddenly realizing, this is what Sesto and me are doing on our pilgrimage.

You can read the whole poem after the click. In German, because I feel not able to bring all the beauty of it into English ...​

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Call for Degrowth

20/11/2016

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It might not surprise you that Sesto and me like the idea of degrowth or decroissance (french) or Postwachstumsgesellschaft (german). The call for hosting the "Sixth International Conference on Degrowth" for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity is now open.

"The past international degrowth conferences have been strongly influential in defining and opening new research and political fields. They have been inspired by social movements and experiments, and developed policy proposals as well as initiatives for social experiments in a wide range of areas. And besides all this, they managed to attract significant attention from the general public and the media.
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The international conferences on degrowth are central landmarks and moments of convergence of the international degrowth intellectual and social movements. They offer a unique opportunity for bringing together scholars with other members of civil society and demonstrating a different way of organizing conferences. A central feature of the conferences has been direct participation and collaboration among participants."
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​find out more about the call | The offical website: www.degrowth.org | for all our German speaking friends: Matthias Schmelzer on degrowth in the Blog www.postwachstum.de
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Leaving Glasgow

19/11/2016

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Yesterday we took the bus from Buchanan Station in Glasgow to Dumfries again, where Sarah picked us up to stay with her in Creetown till the end of the month. We are excited to get to know a little bit of Scotlands coast and maybe see St. Ninians Cave. Enjoy some impressions from our bus ride:


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When it Feels like Home

18/11/2016

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Thanks for the photo to smiling Jennifer!

Today we left the house of the Brighteys, who's name says it all. After some days with Sheona, Paul and their "fabulous two" Evie and Ewan we not only have made some new friends, but our family (or theirs ;-) has grown bigger.

All this and more took place because of Paul sitting next to Sesto in our airplane from Italy to Scotland more than two months ago and finally inviting us to his home, after he had given us a lift with his car to Edinburgh. ...

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A Thing of Beauty is a Joy for Ever

17/11/2016

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Yesterday we visited a highly inspiring place - outside and inside - in the City of Glasgow. The Lighthouse is Scotland's Centre for Design and Architecture. The Herald Building which now houses the Centre was the first public commission of the famous architect, designer and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh.


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The dear Green Place

16/11/2016

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Glasgow deriving from the gaelic word "Glaschu" means "dear green place". The city has 90 parks and gardens. For us it seems not quite the right time of the year to experience this ourselves, but we also have found some places and initiatives which are concerned about Scotland or the City of Glasgow going green.

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find out more about the "green face" of Glasgow | The Singl-end Café and Bakery is a place you will fall in love with for their style, the people and the grrreat food | Greencity is a democratically run wholesaler that works as a Co-operative | The Green Flag Award was launched in 1996 to recognise and reward the best green spaces in the country in Scotland
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An old Pilgrims Place

15/11/2016

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Our latest host Tom Naven wanted to show us the Glasgow Cathedral but it was closed. So today I tried again and visited the Glasgow Necropolis nearby too, which is one of Europes most impressing cemeteries. Enjoy some photo impressions ...


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Whatever your feelings

14/11/2016

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Who is afraid of Donald Trump?

The last week showed how fast we get into emotions and re-action, when our aspirations and high hopes don't get fullfilled. But quite some people stay with the topics instead and contribute pretty good thoughts to the discussion about the US elections. So does John Bunzl a friend of Sesto and mine from London.

In his special article for the Huffington Post: "First Brexit, Now Trump: When Will We Finally Take Globalisation Seriously?", John Bunzl peels back the layers of the seismic shift in modern party politics to get at what's gone wrong, and what might be next.

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​find out about John Bunzls initiative "Simpol" The Simultaneous Policy on www.simpol.org
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When Leonard Cohen divined the future

13/11/2016

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Self-portrait by Leonard Cohen
In her latest blogpost of Brain Pickings Weekly Maria Popova writes: "A quarter century ago, Cohen speaks to our time with astonishing prescience ... ":
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"I think the irony of America is transcendent in the song. It’s not an ironic song. It’s a song of deep intimacy and affirmation of the experiment of democracy in this country. That this is really where the experiment is unfolding.
This is really where the races confront one another, where the classes, where the genders, where even the sexual orientations confront one another. This is the real laboratory of democracy. So I wanted to have that feeling in the song, too."

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read the whole blogpost about Leonard Cohen | more Brain Peekings from one of my favourite blogs
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Hallelujah

12/11/2016

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Leonard Cohan, the great Canadian singer and poet is dead. I am sad. This is a wonderful performance of the song he became mostly known for "Hallelujah". K.D. Lang sang it at the Vancouver Olympics.
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Listen to Leonard Cohan singing his song and read the lyrics clicking "weiter lesen" below

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A Green New Deal

11/11/2016

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Trump’s message was: “All is hell.” Clinton answered: “All is well.” But it’s not well – far from it. | Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein whom I appreciate very much since I read her book "No Logo" and whose thoughts out of her latest book "This Changes Everything - Capitalism vs. The Climate" were accompanying me and Sesto on our pilgrimage to the Word Climate Conference in Paris in 2015, recently wrote an article in The Guardian, where she postulates to go "out of shock as fast as we can and build the kind of radical movement that has a genuine answer to the hate and fear represented by the Trumps of this world. Let’s set aside whatever is keeping us apart and start right now".

Enable peoples readiness to go into action

In fact Naomi Klein and many others have started already. Understanding, that "people have a right to be angry, and a powerful, intersectional left agenda can direct that anger where it belongs, while fighting for holistic solutions that will bring a frayed society together"Naomi Klein showed that such a coalition is possible. "In Canada, we have begun to cobble it together under the banner of a people’s agenda called The Leap Manifesto, endorsed by more than 220 organisations from Greenpeace Canada to Black Lives Matter Toronto, and some of our largest trade unions.
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Sesto and me know an amazing number of people and organisations through our international network since we were hosting the WSF World Spirit Forum in Arosa next to Davos, which was meant to paralell the WEF World Economic Forum. We encountered so many people doing a great job or shining their lights for such holistic solustions that we are far away from fear these days.

​What happened in America is part of a greater clearing that will enable peoples readiness to go into action finally.


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​here you find the whole article in The Guardian | find out more about Naomi Klein
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Let's talk about it

11/11/2016

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After the elections I didn't even mention the name of "the guy", but what has happened affects us - the whole world, our future - and I see it as an opportunity. As I am not an expert in politics, but the underlying themes are anyway different ones I like to recommend one of my favourite thinkers Charles Eisenstein. He's one of the rare good reads in these times. Enjoy!

" ..."Hate and blame are convenient ways of making meaning out of a bewildering situation."
"The dissolution of the old order that is now officially in progress is going to intensify. That presents a tremendous opportunity and danger, because when normal falls apart the ensuing vacuum draws in formerly unthinkable ideas from the margins. Unthinkable ideas range from rounding up the Muslims in concentration camps, to dismantling the military-industrial complex and closing down overseas military bases. They range from nationwide stop-and-frisk, to replacing criminal punishment with restorative justice. Anything becomes possible with the collapse of dominant institutions. When the animating force behind these new ideas is hate or fear, all manner of fascistic and totalitarian nightmares can ensue, whether enacted by existing powers or those that arise in revolution against them. " ...
​Read the whole thing here!
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When you have to go

10/11/2016

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Morning view in Glasgow

Sesto and me decided to go on a pilgrimage and we are very much aware of all those people somewhere in the world, who didn't really want to go or to leave their countries and homes.

Staying together with Lyn since monday, who does a beautiful work with refugees in Glasgow, we were telling her about Ameen from Syria, which we got to know through our friends from Munich Dagmar and Peter.

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Ameen Nasir wrote a wonderful text I want to share with you:
"I wake up early and look towards the large window in my room from my bed. All I can see is the grey blur of rain ... " read the full text  | Ameen is very activ in the "zusammenWachsen e.V." (growingTogether) which lets young refugees engage with society through mutual exchange and social activities and he also works for the radio station Bayrischer Rundfunk (Zündfunk)

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What kind of presidents do we need?

9/11/2016

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After the "bad news" (maybe its just what the world needs in this very moment) concerning the US Elections this morning, I am happy to read that the beautiful thinker Navid Kermani is a nominee for the "Federal President" in Germany. The elections will be held in February 2017.
On May, 23rd, 2014, he gave the keynote speach on the 65th anniversary of the German constitution in the Bundestag, which was a little sensation.
Kermani is a german born Muslim with roots in Iran and has both nationalities.
For his literary and academic work the publicist and orientalist was awarded numerous prices, inluding the Buber-Rosenzweig Medal, the Hannah-Arendt-Price, the Kleist-Price, the Joseph-Breitbach-Preis and the Peace Prize of the German book trade in 2015.
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Some commentators are sure, that a candidat like Kermani being "a brilliant talker and profound expert of religion and politics ... could be an interesting alternative" right now. So am I.

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Here you can read about him in English and German: www.navidkermani.de/view.php?nid=0&switch_lid=2

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How green is the City of Glasgow?

7/11/2016

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A big THANK YOU to all the wonderful people we met in Dumfries and Galloway. For all the help, the trust, the love and the beautiful insights - about Scotland, humans in general and about these interesting times. This morning David took us to the Bus in Dumfries in his car, just after his return from Ethiopia the other day!!! Writing this, we are already in Glasgow. Excited ...

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Why be greener?

4/11/2016

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A view weeks ago we were attanding a discussion about the climate initiated by the state and hosted by the Eco-Congregation Scotland in Dunscore. It was interesting to hear about the different opinions concerning environmental issues and what is different or similar in Scotland compared to Switzerland.

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Green Pilgrims at the Multiverse

2/11/2016

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