sunny Sunday
Jun. 6th, 2004 03:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dream_labyrinthFinally it looks as if summer is here. Sun is shining, birds are singing...
speaking of birds:
Neighbor's cat brought a bird today and was not amused when I told her that I don't want to have her eat it in the house. The good thing was she couldn't bite me, because she had the bird still in her mouth.
Kids are playing outside, running around, building tree houses, shooting at each other with plastic guns.
Summer's an interesting time to sit and watch things happen. I always get the feeling that good and bad are never as close together as this time of the year. Maybe it's just because people are outside more often. All the stuff they do behind closed doors in winter, they now take out for everybody to see.
Summer also is the time when a particular feature of the Germans jumps right at the attentive witness: the tendency to build fences.
If a German comes to the beach, the first thing he'll do is spread out his towel to cover as much ground as possible, mark his spot. Germany is full of little gardens, all with high fences and hedges around them.
And many people will stand behind their own fence and peek over in somebody else's garden to find out what he's doing. Seems strange, but while they want to protect themselves from nosy neighbors, they feel it's quite alright to be just as nosy themselves.
OK, there are Germans that are different. And maybe other nations have the same habits. But it alsways seemed to me to be something very typical for the nation I belong to. Don't take me wrong, I like being German. Even though that's nothing many Germans would say aloud. But - there are some things I don't agree with. Is there anything more beautiful than a free view over the land, unblocked by power lines, houses, and fences? There's so much space out there, why take most of it away to build borders?
No, I'll not get into politics. Even though I am a proud citizen of the European Union and would really appreciate the foundation of the United States of Europe. Yes, there are natural borders between people. Mentality is one. But these frontiers don't follow the lines on political maps.
Wow, quite a huge step from summer to politics. I start getting an impression on how hard it is to talk with me in person. But hey, another nice side effect of a life journal. I'll end up being even closer to perfection than I am already. ;-))
So that's it for the moment, gotta get a nice piece of cake in our beautiful garden, surrounded by nice hedges keeping nosy neighbors out.
YES, I am a real German...
speaking of birds:
Neighbor's cat brought a bird today and was not amused when I told her that I don't want to have her eat it in the house. The good thing was she couldn't bite me, because she had the bird still in her mouth.
Kids are playing outside, running around, building tree houses, shooting at each other with plastic guns.
Summer's an interesting time to sit and watch things happen. I always get the feeling that good and bad are never as close together as this time of the year. Maybe it's just because people are outside more often. All the stuff they do behind closed doors in winter, they now take out for everybody to see.
Summer also is the time when a particular feature of the Germans jumps right at the attentive witness: the tendency to build fences.
If a German comes to the beach, the first thing he'll do is spread out his towel to cover as much ground as possible, mark his spot. Germany is full of little gardens, all with high fences and hedges around them.
And many people will stand behind their own fence and peek over in somebody else's garden to find out what he's doing. Seems strange, but while they want to protect themselves from nosy neighbors, they feel it's quite alright to be just as nosy themselves.
OK, there are Germans that are different. And maybe other nations have the same habits. But it alsways seemed to me to be something very typical for the nation I belong to. Don't take me wrong, I like being German. Even though that's nothing many Germans would say aloud. But - there are some things I don't agree with. Is there anything more beautiful than a free view over the land, unblocked by power lines, houses, and fences? There's so much space out there, why take most of it away to build borders?
No, I'll not get into politics. Even though I am a proud citizen of the European Union and would really appreciate the foundation of the United States of Europe. Yes, there are natural borders between people. Mentality is one. But these frontiers don't follow the lines on political maps.
Wow, quite a huge step from summer to politics. I start getting an impression on how hard it is to talk with me in person. But hey, another nice side effect of a life journal. I'll end up being even closer to perfection than I am already. ;-))
So that's it for the moment, gotta get a nice piece of cake in our beautiful garden, surrounded by nice hedges keeping nosy neighbors out.
YES, I am a real German...
