Discover life: Living in rhythm

Was I alive today?

Yes!

What new things have I discovered about life?

When standard solutions (simply welding it shut) aren’t possible, you just have to come up with unconventional ones. At a ‘wall rail rust hole solution’ meeting, we came up with an unconventional solution. That’s fine too. I’m not particularly keen on problems, but coming up with cool solutions is just good fun.

What new things have I discovered about myself?

I have come to deeply realise just how important and valuable rhythms are for the body and soul. Ever since I discovered the Swing concept As I’ve developed this approach, I’ve come to internalise it more and more. I realise quite quickly which aspects of my life I’m missing when I’ve neglected one or more of them for a while.

Yesterday, whilst on the underground, I had a look at all the photos from the last three months. It struck me that a lot has happened. Some of it was done by professionals – things like welding, which I can’t do myself yet – but most of it was done by me and my friends. It’s been a period of hard work; in some weeks I was at the boat on the other side of Berlin almost every day.

Now Helge, who’s been a great help to me over the last few weeks, will soon be off again; Bernd’s still in hospital, and Bill, who’s going to fit the heating, is too… so I can’t really carry on much further. And that’s just as well. Of course, I’ll carry on putting up insulation so it’s cosy in winter… and I’ll keep thinking things through. But I’m going to allow myself to slow the pace down a bit for three weeks… I can always pick it up again in December… once the lecture tours are over, the new windows are in (a firm’s doing that) and it’s cosy and warm with the fire crackling in the wood-burning stove.