Dolphin Address 25
June 8th 2005
The early morning sun cherishes Verena’s balcony. Bordered by violets in all colors of the rainbow I slowly let in the day. Polyphonic birdsongs echo three story’s high between the blocks, sometimes under voiced by home leaving commuters. The ripple on the Neu Koelner Schiffahrt Kanal re-sparkles the slept-in sunlight.
Berlin s’éveille.
The city has grown a very different face. I had not yet seen her in this foliage. It makes a vital difference with the inhospitability of the past winter. She softens the grimness of angular lines to woolly swaying motions and colors hard bricks to a mild glow. Even the indifferent sounds of the eternal traffic are subdued to village-like proportions.
We are going into our last week. The preparations for Brittany are still in full swing. I would like to have a second trunk on the roof of the bus in order to clear our living space and we definitely have got to do something about shoes. No doubt there will pop up last minute ideas and we shall have to resign to lack of time. On the issue of pictorial coverage the last battle of attrition is within sight. We’re going to buy the camera body in Berlin and the objectives in Holland. The camcorder was love at first sight but a fitting underwater house is still a problem.
Still a day to help friends painting, to tie loose ends, to say goodbye here and there and then we throw our heads in the wind and cast ourselves in the arms of gravity.
For the violets we hope it will rain on and off, so they won’t all turn to blues.
Jan Ploeg, Berlin, June 8th 2005
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