{"id":2288,"date":"2020-08-16T14:21:58","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T12:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2022-11-15T20:36:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T18:36:52","slug":"052020-a-summer-wasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/2020\/08\/052020-a-summer-wasting\/","title":{"rendered":"052020: A Summer Wasting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Do you remember the vast amount of summer holidays we used to have as kids? Six weeks without school, without duties, six weeks of living a completely care-free life. These weeks were heralded with a school report, and our parents would pick us up at around 12 in front of the school; and we\u2019d leave another year of nerve-wracking stress and torments behind. I hated school, but this moment of stepping into a long, empty summer, was always pure bliss.<\/p>\n

Last week, I started a self-prescribed summer break. I\u2019ve had some weird years and I\u2019m in-between jobs, so I decided to actively do nothing for a couple of weeks. Not sure if the care-free childhood feeling is replicable as an adult (probably not), but the feeling of not planning very far ahead puts me at ease\u2014at least for a brief moment. Actively deciding to not care for a moment is self-care! I\u2019ll call the dentist sometime soon. I\u2019m sure the whole tax situation will sort itself out. I\u2019m not going to plan any big travels.<\/p>\n

This is probably one of my least favorite character traits: I am a really bad traveler. The whole part of organization and the pressure of having to have great experiences just stresses me out. As a child, my parents would usually take us on a real vacation for 10 days during summer break. And while I generally enjoyed that very much (and didn\u2019t even need to plan anything, of course!), it was also\u00a0work:<\/em>\u00a0It somehow meant that the actual summer break was only 4 weeks. I needed that idleness to just let the past months sink in. Painting, drawing, seeing friends\u2014simply not having to have any exciting experiences (but not avoiding them either, of course). Just letting the time pass by.<\/p>\n

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Things that caught my attention:<\/p>\n

As my friends know, I am big fan of the houses by Inken, Doris and Hinrich Baller.\u00a0Ex Libris<\/em><\/a>\u00a0dedicated one of their\u00a0No News News<\/em>\u00a0issues to\u00a0Baller\u2019s exceptional Berlin architecture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Remember the hot priest from Phoebe Waller-Bridge\u2019s TV show\u00a0Fleabag?<\/em>\u00a0Andrew Scott shares some life lessons (and Irish swear words!) in the podcast\u00a0How to Fail<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0If you enjoy this newsletter, you\u2019ll enjoy that episode, I\u2019m very sure.<\/p>\n

As a quick break from sitting outside, I can recommend\u00a0this short animated series<\/a>\u00a0about Tinder date stories on arte.<\/p>\n

You probably all know about the astonishing power of the blue blood of horseshoe crabs (the 450-million-year-old living fossils!).\u00a0Radiolab<\/em>\u00a0resurfaced their\u00a02018 episode<\/a>\u00a0recently, with a little update on the animal\u2019s role in COVID times.<\/p>\n

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In other news: Today, on August 15, it would be Roger Willemsen\u2019s 65th birthday. He died in 2016, and since then he is dearly missed as one of Germany\u2019s most-liked intellectuals. In fact, I don\u2019t know anyone who didn\u2019t appreciate him as a moral compass, and I, too, miss his voice in current times. Recently, my friend\u00a0Eva<\/a>\u00a0and I were discussing which prominent people we\u2019d like to ask for advice when making decisions, and Willemsen definitely would be my chairman of the board. Who would be yours?<\/p>\n

As my summer break continues, I\u2019ll be spending the nights listening to Belle & Sebastian\u2019s\u00a0summer vacation soundtrack<\/a>, which also served as the title for this issue:\u00a0I spent the summer wasting \/ The time was passed so easily \/ But if the summer’s wasted \/ How come that I could feel so free?<\/em>\u00a0Stay cool and safe and enjoy the weather.<\/p>\n

If you enjoy content like this: I send it out as a (irregular) monthly newsletter called\u00a0<\/em>Christel\u2019s Corner.\u00a0Sign up for it here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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