Goodbye and Hello!

I am not good at saying goodbye. I like staying. I like people. I like hanging out. So why do I choose a lifestyle where I have to say goodbye all the time? Sailors say ‘See you on the Seas’ and indeed that is supposed to happen. Meeting people again and again while cruising. That sounds great.

Never really had that before. I left Germany the first time when I was 19 for Switzerland, Italy and Austria, in that order, for about 2 years. Returned to Hamburg to study Philosophy, History and Mass Media, only to leave again 4 years later for Los Angeles. Leaving and goodbyes I know well. I went to visit and few came to visit me. The lingering feeling that I am missing something stayed with me. For years I tried to analyze why I am not steady, don’t stay. A sense of freedom and adventure keeps me interested, keeps me moving. Los Angeles held my attention for a long time. I lived there for 18 years.

Culturally diverse, open minded, engaged, creative, I found LA inspiring. The luminous blue of the sky after the sunset competing with the red of traffic lights. LA poetry. Few friends got it. For most I was lost in a jungle of freeways and shallow people trying to become movie stars. Like everywhere there are a multitude of people in any city and I found people here I treasure. I know, it was challenging to get places, but we organized and arranged ourselves along rush hours. And I loved my neighborhood and little house in Venice where the sun shone in during  the afternoons, lighting up the whole house.

Then adventure called and I moved to Bucharest with Radu. And an adventure it was! I truly enjoyed even the challenging bits.

Challenges I know and like. I will never be perfect at anything, because I like the challenge of the new. I simply don’t put in the time it takes to perfect things. I feel that’s for other people. I like instigating. Planting seeds. Blaze new trails. Rattle and shake up the established ways and see what survives the fresh wind of the uncompromising and unrelenting dimension of climate change.

People like me don’t have answers, but a clear view of what doesn’t work anymore. Not very popular and certainly not political. Stirring the status quo, ‘oh no, but who’s going to pay for that?’ We will, or your children, or the rest of the world. I try to find arguments to illustrate, to make palpable points people can grasp, but I am always and everywhere met with the money argument. So lame. As they say we ‘will find out that we can’t eat money’. Instigators need to move because they are spreading the word. As we want on the Imagine and with the Imagine, to spread the word.

Saying goodbye seems to be the sacrifice I was willing to make. How could I? Conviction. This has been my schtick for years. I developed a hard skin. A guy in San Diego who asked me if I ‘believe in climate change’, I didn’t hear! How is that for survival skill. But he is right, I believe in climate change and do what I can.

Moving is part of the plan. We want to spread the word while moving. To experience what is going on all over the world. Up close and to talk to people about their ways, their way of life, and if climate change has manifested in their life and how.

We very much appreciate if people follow us virtually or want to meet us along the way.
Imagine and all is good!
Hello to you!