one last dinner at the
most delicious place to eat out in berlin,
omoni in Kopenhagener Strasse.
i ate there with two very good friends
as we farewelled.

my friend holly fluxx asked me to bring my camera along to the party and here is some of what happened. it was a colourful, loud, and full of good textures

berlin slumber party! gooey on the inside*

*no actual sleep over component

holly made delicious wilted spinach with garlic and we ate it with the polenta i made and then olivier cut my hair and its really good. its very good to have friends from home living in the same foreign city as you. i think also your friendness can develop in new ways.

dribbling sounds from clicking fingers.

taking these thoughts to precipices

i went walking with my camera this afternoon, looking at the art that is present everywhere.






sometimes holding a camera can heighten
this
realisation.

and ive started dancing again, my co-ordination is lopsided and loopy but it is good to be waking up and moving.

She floored me--
she floored me
tearing holes in my stockings.
she floored me,
throwing my body into the concrete.

My friends were doing an improvised movement and musical piece called 'Buzz Cut Crab Stick' at this awesome squat venue, we climbed up a rope ladder and through a trap door perched on a platform to watch the performance, it was very wonderful and exciting.

"It takes time...this place doesnt run at you, and if you run for it, it disappears."

The words of a friends friend on the street describing the patience and pace of things, and of connecting into the life of this city, you have to allow it to slowly seep in, and be awake and open to it...And again I think of my mumma's words "if you hold on to something too tightly you dont have your hands open to receive it"

the beautiful apartment I am staying in in Berlin, i am so excited to be here and very blessed to be so well looked after. My dear friend stuck up this wonderful map while she was visiting here, a collection of pages from an old atlas, so I can keep studying all the names of places and where they are.