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Today, I was hoping to go hiking up to Ouzel Falls in the Rocky Mountains National Park but was turned away by the ranger as I didn’t have a reservation (a novelty due to COVID). So I went and did an impromptu hike from Meeker Park Lodge up towards Lookout Mountain instead.  I tend toContinue reading “Bears and butterflies”

As I enjoy my vacation in Colorado, staying with my Austrian-American host family and going on daily adventures either with groups or on my own out in nature, I realize that, on one hand, I really have two or three chosen families, while on the other, I am spontaneously able to open up, meet andContinue reading “Chosen families and wandering meteors”

Exactly one week ago, I got on the road again — at last!  I love traveling — especially road trips and being out in the wild — but hadn’t been able to do anything last summer, so getting away again this summer felt liberating. And today, I had another very special and exciting moment asContinue reading “Climbing!”

Last night, I watched the movie “Boy meets girl”. It’s one of the sweetest, most delicate, positive or optimistic and affirming films that I’ve seen lately.  In my opinion there are still several clichés in this movie, but there’s more cliché-breaking, in a delicate, respectful way, and that’s what makes it so enjoyable and compellingContinue reading ““Boy meets girl””

We’re having a hot spell in California and ants are visiting my kitchen again. They often seem to do so during a hot spell — a friend of mine who grew up here said they seek water…  Whatever they’re after, they don’t seem to be interested in my food, fortunately — maybe because I haveContinue reading

While most people my age are buying their own house, moving in with their one-and-only (or main) partner, educating their children or waiting for the right moment to have their own kids — if they haven’t already done all or some of this —, I’m doing none of this and I’m actually making sort ofContinue reading “Crab-walk?”

“Something just like this” by The Chainsmokers & Coldplay: “I’ve been reading books of old The legends and the myths Achilles and his gold Hercules and his gifts Spider-Man’s control And Batman with his fists And clearly I don’t see myself upon that list But I said, where’d you wanna go? How much you wannaContinue reading ““Something just like this””

“Dark nights” by Dorothy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpT7DByytV4 “ … I’ve seen dark nights Whoa-oh dark nights But only the darkest light can deliver my soul … “ What if I didn’t come back from my road trip this summer and disappeared into the wilderness?

I recently saw the movie “Beautiful boy” which touched me and resonated with me in various ways.  There’s a boy in me. “Biologically” I am a female but I have always felt androgynous, sometimes wishing that I & the world were “neutral”. I’ve always felt a boy in me. And now, as my eyes andContinue reading ““Beautiful boy””

I’m feeling lonely. Today, it’s the “I am alone” aspect of the refrain “I walk alone” from Green Day’s song “Boulevard of broken dreams” that resonates with me.  Last night, my loneliness was so intense that my chest felt tight.  The causes of this extremely intense loneliness have deep, ancient roots for me; but lastContinue reading “Alone”