Category Archives: Hands

Hugs, fabrics, moss, … haptic experiences!

The beet was Rasputin’s favorite vegetable. You could see it in his eyes.

Many things have been said and written about the red beet, no doubts there. It certainly is not only Rasputin’s favorite vegetable, if not due to its fabulous taste, at least owing to the fact that it turns our pee pink. Who wouldn’t want that?! Be it as it may, I’d like to a) share this fantastic “atomic” specimen which we recently bought at Bio Company in Berlin (and subsequently backed in the oven together with onions and apples and rapeseed oil!), b) recommend as so often before Tom Robbins’ legendary book “Jitterbug Perfume”.

Atomic beet (Birne zum Größenvergleich!) from Bio Company, Berlin Kreuzberg.
Atomic beet (Birne zum Größenvergleich!) from Bio Company, Berlin Kreuzberg.
Will the story end with the devil, as the Ukrainian proverb predicts ??
Will the story end with the devil, as the Ukrainian proverb predicts ??

Great Grandpa’s Bowler Hat

Great grandpa really had more hats than I thought! After his tophat I now also found his Bowler hat (by Josef Mauerer, Vienna)! A photography which has been on the wall of the hallway in our country house, where he lived, as long as I can think, shows him on his wedding day – with exactly this hat in his hand. Around 100 years later, it is still in such good shape that it means he cannot have worn it often.

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