Could it be a travel blog with that title? As much as any journey, the life cycle moves through time and territory not travelled through before. So yes, it can also be a travel-related blog while deeply rooted in the "big stuff" of life. I arrived in Bergen, Norway just over a week ago. Since [...]
Author: janetrappes
Lavage: a prayer
Cleanse my being of the labours of witness Wash away the perils of humanity Those absorbed without consent The burdens of unmet needs And wants They stirred to cellular inflammation A thousand unseen tears Grief Anger Fear Unholy regret Noise and dissonance and song Flow beyond me Gently till the bedding for breath and light [...]
Hooroo, Uluru!
When you go away for a short while, fitting in a few blogs is a bit of a tall order. But here is the final offering from my five day excursion to the red centre. We are on the plane home, we have waved goodbye to the big red rock and the landscape that has [...]
Be my valentine
I am in love with a rock. A massive, ancient, red rock. It’s presence, it’s soft folds and it’s crumbled edges. It’s perches for flora and fauna. It’s generosity and it’s dominance. It’s otherworldliness, it’s stillness. We drove back to our red centre starting point, heading west after a Kings Canyon 2 day excursion. We [...]
Before I go…
“Three Ingredients” I will leave for Uluru shortly. It’s high time I made this journey to the heart of this land. What will I see, what will I do... and more importantly, what will I feel? I am prepared to find this a deeply spiritual experience. Or am I? Recently I have been meditating on [...]
Staying sane in Suburbia 🏘
The title suggested by younger son when wishing me happy Father's Day (another story) with whom I briefly discussed my new blog idea. Based on the general interest in "Escape to the Country", "Escape from the City", "I want a life less ordinary life" movement (?), especially popular with my cohort. In this blog I [...]
Addendum: Nordrhein-Westfalen and beyond…
I'm home now, sitting on my deck on this pleasantly warm early morning. The typical Australian summer suburban sounds swarm, magpies carolling and lorikeets chattering amongst other intermittent and other distant birdsong and the fuzzy buzzing of the crickets' and cicadas' crescendos. It is always good to return to home and with the disorienting jetlag [...]
It’s all Deutsch to me…
I'm loving being in greater Germany. Although I loved being in Berlin, it is so cosmopolitan and such an international hub that you can easily forget you're in another country, and the Lingua Franca is almost Englisch which also contributes to that feeling of a halfway cultural experience. So when you move out of that [...]
Here and there
It's been snowing this morning in Göttingen, just as the sun was rising above the wintry clouds on the horizon. There's a dusting still on the roofs and the ground that's not melting as it's still below zero. We arrived yesterday around lunch time after a two hour train trip from Berlin. It was a [...]
Happy New Year 💥
It's the morning of New Year's Eve and we've been officially warned by our Airbnb hosts that Berlin celebrations are not for the faint hearted. Fireworks are only for sale for a few days leading up to New Years. The combination of alcohol and fireworks and youth can be an explosive mix. Achtung! The booms [...]
Presence in Place 