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The Thing or the End of Winter Depression

God must have heard my screams or read my blog entrys about depression because since a week my suffering came to an end: I discovered the thing.

First I have to make a little detour: Last summer I took care of a friends appartment in Vienna. There was an abandoned tennis court in the back of the house and I was the only person who had the key to it. It was striking: you entered the house from a very busy street, went straight through several hallways of houses and courtyards and behind the last house (where I was living at the time) there were very old stairs and when you took them up you were suddenly on a plateau, with wild blossoming flowers growing through the original old red tennis court ground. I invited people there at night, made picknicks and sat there sometimes with a glas of wine and looked into the stars before I went to bed. I remember one night or early morning I came there with 2 friends after a party and we slept there on blankets all bundled up. I think it was so amazing because

it was so unexpected in the center of a city and it had the idea of something being kind of secretive and then that it was a comepletely free space. Here in Copenhagen I discovered something even better. I cannot talk about it so I call it the thing. It has also to do with a free and completely unexpted space. I decided it will be part of the Urban Pilgrimage on Sunday the 27th. I think free spaces are important for Copenhagen.

08.01.2008, 16:45