Helvetic Reflections

Log Entry - 31. July 2024

After an intense period in CITY I got some rest in the Swiss alps. I had met with and hosted a lot of people back home, been to a festival I love and planned the remaining year.

I made new friends and really deepened some existing connections. I also set some thoughts and decision processes in motion that make me happy (and scared).

Still, in the first weeks of July, I felt exhausted, unfocused and in need of some time with myself.

Coming here was the perfect choice.

It's been a while since I saw the mountains of VALLEY in July and believe me, it is absolutely beautiful. Everything is so fertile and alive. There are a million flowers in all colors wherever you look and I feel the sun is much stronger up here when it's out.

Now that the stay here is comming to an end, I want to write about it and what it meant to me. It's an attempt to start a practice of sharing but also one of reflection and processing. I'm very grateful at this moment. Grateful to the new and old people in my life, to the mountains that don't care at all about me, yet still give me so much. I am also grateful to myself, because of the decisions I made that brought me here, because of the calm, resilience and confidence I feel (and haven't felt before).

I hope - wherever you are when you're reading this - that you can tune in to this feeling for a moment. Also, if you're interested in my unsolicitated thoughts about speciesism, cow breeds, European outdoors, loneliness and the genre-bending cyberpunk novel I'm currently reading, stay tuned.