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We\u2019re sitting in a small park somewhere in Berlin, when R. points to the sky:\u00a0Look!<\/em>\u00a0The unusual bird lands on top of a street light, looking back at us. It\u2019s a majestic animal, yet smaller than the usual crows we see around the city\u2019s parking lots. In an unwary moment, as we look away, the sparrow hawk arrows right into the bushes behind us, and seconds later, we hear a sharp and short squeak. Then, the bird flies away over our heads, with a little mouse in its claws. We can see its tail squirming as the mouse is carried through the air on its last trip.<\/p>\n It was a weird moment. Bittersweet, like the beet root ice cream in my mouth. For a short second, all the people in the park were mesmerized; the guy on the lawn held his little chihuahua with both hands, in fear that the hawk\u2019s claws would take it away. A very irrational fear, but still \u2013 understandable. Fear makes us do weird things.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n \u2733\ufe0e In September\u00a0I decided that my summer break had been long enough, and I started moving into a nice little office space to pursue my freelance career. I\u2019m doing it at my pace, one step at a time. I\u2019ve learned to say No to things, and\u00a0being your own person<\/em>\u00a0really seems like a healthy concept to me? Thanks to myself for finally noticing!<\/p>\n \u2733\ufe0e\u00a0I jotted down a couple of\u00a0vacation notes<\/a>\u00a0on my blog. I also wrote about an iconic\u00a0IKEA clock<\/a>\u00a0and about the\u00a0underwear in the tree<\/a>\u00a0outside my kitchen. I\u2019ve been writing that weblog since 2006, and I still like the idea of having a room for myself on the internet \u2014 almost like my own little garden. Stop by if you wish.<\/p>\n \u2733\ufe0e\u00a0From now on, I contribute a little design column to the German\u00a0form design magazine<\/a>. Nina Sieverding and Anton Rahlwes are the new editors-in-chief, and I am really keen on their approach on topics, perspectives and the magazine\u2019s design itself. Go get it!<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n As quickly as the sparrow hawk took its prey, this year\u2019s summer decided to take a leap and leave. My\u00a0summer wasting<\/a>\u00a0was a success though; I had a lot of good outdoor pizza dinners, and I spent a vast amount of time speeding through the streets on my bike. I accept that the COVID anxiety behaves like a curve, too. Sometimes it\u2019s high, sometimes it\u2019s low.\u00a0New Normal,\u00a0<\/em>etc etc. I hope you\u2019re still coping somewhat well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We\u2019re sitting in a small park somewhere in Berlin, when R. points to the sky:\u00a0Look!\u00a0The unusual bird lands on top of a street light, looking back at us. It\u2019s a majestic animal, yet smaller than the usual crows we see around the city\u2019s parking lots. In an unwary moment, as we look away, the sparrow … 062020: H is for Hawk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1197,1203,1206],"tags":[44,41,40,2,43],"class_list":["post-2334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beobachtungen","category-berlin","category-christels-corner","tag-christels-corner","tag-english","tag-newsletter","tag-text","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2337,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions\/2337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}