Be the Bowl, Not the Channel
There are weeks when a single word won’t let go of you. For me right now, it’s acceptance. It keeps showing up when I least expect it. In conversations, in songs, in texts. Maybe because it’s ...
Sonja
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Stretch Marks
“You know that feeling? Like I’m growing beyond my own capacity. It feels like stretch marks.” That’s what I wrote to my friends yesterday. In a chat. Not over coffee or wine on the street ...
Summer Solstice
Before my parents arrived, I told my friends I was nervous. About the visit, about our dynamic – all the history that comes with being someone’s daughter. One friend said: “Maybe you can learn something ...
24 hours
So familiar. So calming, so soothing, so intuitive. Like a hug. And yet, in these streets, I keep spotting an old version of myself. Walking to the bakery. Cycling along the Isar. I loved that life. But that’s ...
All of Us, Dots
The artist Yayoi Kusama covers everything in dots. Pumpkins, canvases, walls, her own body, other people’s bodies, entire rooms. She has been doing it since childhood, when she started seeing the world ...
Passages
“Sonja, we’re in between.” She said in a voice message, somewhere between her cooking potato soup and me lying in bed being sick. She was so sure about it. No hesitation. And I think she’s ...
About Beginnings
I stood there wondering: where do I start? What’s the first article here? By now I have so many things I want to write about – but where do I begin? Which one is the first? Then I read a sentence in Patti ...
The Journal
A journal from the South of France – on identity, change, and coming back to yourself. It’s all about thoughts, feelings, reflections – whenever something moves me and I want to put it into words. ...