2026
‘All you need is a chair and a view’: could daily ‘dusking’ make us healthier and happier?
In the Netherlands, dusking, or schemeren, was once an everyday ritual, with families sitting together to observe the end of the day and the coming of night.
Right now as winter comes to an end I‘m nearing the dusktime during work, but I‘ll start walking around that time and see how it is soon - we often take night walks, which are nice, but I do love a good twilight…
Found a front yard full of my first flowers of the season (on today’s first day of meteorological spring): purple crocuses, snow drops, and winter jasmine blossoms on a walk under fair weather clouds
Inkwell RSS reader by @manton (beta) is great, has got me reading through feed posts that I’d been skipping over elsewhere. The in-browser flow fits in well with Micro.blog-ing - I was wishing for a bookmarks/posting functionality, and it’s all there. However making highlights doesn’t work on iPad.
First outdoor café visits of the pre-spring season - 18C and sunny - and long walks downtown and back this weekend
Currently reading the audiobook: The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher - started listening a couple nights ago while the Champions League game Bayer Leverkusen - Olympiakos Piraeus (0:0) was on in the background 📚
With the books that were with me for 3 months due back in a couple days I’ve stumbled upon the Libby online library for Berlin and borrowed a number of titles including audiobooks like The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher and subscribed to a few magazines starting with The New Yorker.
Had the pleasure of seeing a small v formation of geese flying east over the street crossing this morning on the way to work.
Got to see the women’s gold medal curling match SUI - SWE (5:6) this morning. Now watching the 2026 Winter Olympics closing ceremonies.
Heard a v formation of geese flying over with the living room window open. Letting in some fresh air after an afternoon out (trip to a café in Wedding) in the mild temperatures on the first days after the long, bitter cold - migrating birds are making use of the warmer (yet rainy) weather as well.
Trying out Unread RSS reader on the iPad via @brentsimmons
Watched the Olympics men’s curling final GBR - CAN (6:9) , one more match tomorrow morning - the women’s final
Went to another Berlinale showing and saw: La Face Cachée de la Terre The Hidden Face of the Earth - a moving film about the meaning of images when a photographer is going blind🍿
Went to the Berlinale to watch the screening of the competition film Rosebush Pruning 🍿
Day off after the trip, got up early then went back to sleep. Lounging around now, going to go out somewhere later…
Winding down after a weekend train trip to Bremen and Oldenburg for an art exhibition tour of 3 museums: Alberto Giacometti “Das Maß der Welt“ on its last weekend, Paula Modersohn-Becker “Becoming Paula” (150 years exhibition), Horst Janssen “Janssen in Farbe“, Christoph Niemann “Randnotizen” 🗺️🎨
Rainy day, thought I’d be able to walk home in the mild temps, but it was too wet so took the tram. Now back out to the rain for a grocery store run after the 2nd third in GER - DEN (3:1) men’s ice hockey game (other Olympics seen today were women’s snowboard half pipe and women’s ice skating 5000m)
Watched Olympics double luge, and more curling, men‘s CAN - GER (7:6) - what has turned out to be my favorite sport these winter games