All Saints Day 2014 – Mortality in Infrared
Often overshadowed by the preceding Halloween, All Saints Day on November 1, celebrates all of the faithful who are in Heaven. The parish gathers on the cemetery, having dressed up the graves of their late relatives before. A short procession sprinkles holy water to bless for every grave while on stand on the grave and...
My bike ride to the office 2 days 2 different lenses
I bike to my office every day, if the weater allows it. This means pretty much, apprimately 16 km/10 miles across the city one-way. In fall that means starting and finishing the ride at dawn. Since parts of the ride is quite nice with this light, I made pictures on two sequential days: first day...
The unplanned confession – three in one?
This morning I went to the monastery St. Ottilien for a retreat with the theme” Difficulties in Believing”. Munich to St. Ottilien is just a short ride on the highway and a few miles country side with promise of a beautiful fall day. After I arrived, I checked the TV billboard in the lobby for...
Spiritual hiking weekend of a catholic tribe howling like wolves
Management summary: Spiritual hiking weekend of a catholic tribe howling like wolves. The theme was wolves. Is that the catholic answer pentecostal? It seem it is. Amazing weekend indeed. The wolf in us from an Jungian view: “lupus est homo homini” wp.me/p2bcCT-1Jo 1 day ago Friday: We meet at the monastery in Tirol. Huge building, Habsburg style, lots of foreign art: the monks still...
Opportunità Reblog Antonio De Simone
This uplifting poem by Antonio De Simone complements mine about Change. I always like Antonio De Simone pictures and poems. This picture reminds me on two camp grounds in Italy, one in Tuscany and one at Elba. What does the EU make out of Europe which has such a rich culture, “father countries” and “mother tongues”. Very nice Poem – what a beautiful language Italian is. Vi sono strade che vale la pena percorre viverle anche se sconosciute ed incomprese ai nostri occhi bisogna affrontarle come nuove avventure che se segnate da un destino incerto offrono sempre l’opportunità...
Updated to 3.5 Those guys (and gals) are brilliant.
I am thirty years in the computer business, updating no commercial product was ever such a smooth sailing oops spelling check doesn’t work before clearing the cache….
Glai Hamas – Mountain Biking in the Baverian Alps
By fallen Angel “Glai Hamas” – “we are almost there”, said the fellow biker while Mountain Biking in the Bavarian Alps when he passed me with a soft Munich dialect. The remark was meant and taken as encouragement, while I struggled up the mountain on a very hot summer day around Walchensee in the Bavarian...