Coloured souls

A wonderful quote brought to me by wonderful F. on the back of a letter:

As time goes by, the soul takes on the colour of your thoughts.

-Marc Aurel

July

I uploaded some of the pics I took in July, more after the jump!

"Why? Are you going out tonight?"

Working in the ambulant nursing services is not good for my already rather less existent patience.

This old (to my mind mental) lady opens the door and starts to bitch:
"Well, you are very, very late. What did you do? You two lazies!"
I looked at her and wished that looks could kill and said: "Why? Are you going out tonight later?"
but the nurse I was with warned me with a look.
Ok, I understand, don't be rude, you have act like a professional..

Seriously: These people are sitting on their couch the whole fucking day, watching TV, waiting for the next meal and if we arrive at their houses, totally stressed, after running up 4 storeys,
they act like they have a bursting schedule and every minute we are late costs them thousands of Euros.
Oh by the way: We were caught by a speed camera yesterday because the nurse was so stressed because she was late that she was driving 90 where only 50km/h were allowed.
...

The hospital made an hater of the elderly out of me..

Mariella

"And sometimes I wish, sometimes, I wish I was like Mariella,
she got some pritt stick and she glued her lips together.
So she never had to speak, never had to speak, never had to speak.
People used to say she's as quiet as a mouse, she just doesn't make a peep.
She marched to her wardrobe and she threw away the colour,
because wearing black looks mysterious, but it didn't impress her mother.
She wanted to dress her baby in patterns and flowers,
but Mariella just crossed her arms and so she cried for hours."

Your weekly prescription, just randomness this time..

Robert Cameron took this photo:

  

"I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep." 

Kurt Vonnegut

 

It was time for me

"You are the music, while the music lasts." 

T.S. Eliot

I am working at the nursing service for out-patients right now.
One very old female patient who I've seen two days before for the first time said:
"Oh wait, I know your name, don't say it, I'll remember... Hildegard, right?"
"Um... no. Not exactly."

Still one of my alltime favourites, don't know if I posted it here before. If so: Sorry.


The ghosts of WWII - have a look. It's really interesting. I've been there a few months before.

Beauty in everything

Lightwriting in a skatepark

Wen the Eternally Surprised

A little part from the book "The Thief Of Time" by my alltime favourite author: Terry Pratchett.

This part is about Wen the Eternally Surprised:

"The first question of the reader was always:
"Why was he surprised eternally?"
And then he notices: "Wen thought about the nature of time and realized, that our universe is created new in every single moment. This made him realize that there is no such thing as past, there are only memories.
You blink with your eyes and suddenly there is a world which did not exist when your eyes were closed.
So Wen came to the conclusion that there is only one state of mind which is suitable:
Surprise.
And the only suitable state of mind for the heart is joy.

No one saw the sky you see right now ever before.
The perfect moment is now.
Be happy about it."

I've read it about 10 times until now and I like this part more and more every time.
Sorry for my poor translation though.

 "Tears clean your heart"

Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski

(1821-1881)
Russian author