Adesso Hotel Astoria Kassel

Well, I missed a post one day and then it grew to two, then three.... I tried to remember each day, but I couldn't.<br><br>Some highlights...<br><br>We went to a medieval market. It was pretty crowded since it was set up on narrow streets in a village. I did get to try Kartoffelpuffer there. It's a potato pancake fried in oil. Mmmm.<br><br>I also got to hike around in Altenberg. There were ...

... a nice playground and close to the edge of the woods to go for walks. <br><br>We had our wine, cold diner and then walked around the campground looking at the trailers. We even saw a van with Arizona plates on it and a US flag flying about the trailer. Boy did his GPS take him on a long trek.<br><br>In the woods there are two huge, tall oak trees. They do have a vine growing on them and we wonder how long it might be before the ...

... we are, 23 seventeen and eighteen year old students under a party tent in the middle of a public park drinking and having a good time. Outside, families walk to their cars from playing soccer in the rain and we just party on, as loud as can be... Never in America. It was great being the "new guy" again. We drank beer, beer with sprite (women's beer as the call it), and voldka. After about 5 ...

Checking in at Condors in Bahias small airport was easy. Condor took off on time and we had a pleasent flight. 10 hours later we touched down in Frankfurt. I managed to get my "overload" on ciggis through customs and had to buy a trainticket up to Kassel. On the train i fall asleep . In Kassel i caught the local train to my suburb. It was a funny feeling to come home after one year. Nobody was ...

... geworden. Von den VermittlerInnen als Ort des Austausches nutzbar, liegt das Spezifische dieser Arbeit doch auch gleichzeitig darin, den Blick der Verweilenden nicht auf das Kunstobjekt selbst, sondern auf dessen Umgebung zu lenken und so auch hier eine Abstraktion zu vermitteln. Man kann aber auch die Schule selbst als Monolith betrachten.

*1934 in Berkeley (US), lives in Santa Fé (US) McCracken's work is characterised by a highly distilled formal vocabulary, refined over many years of development. Colour and surface are utilised to create perceptual shifts between materiality and immateriality, providing his minimalist sculptures with a metaphysical presence. This aspect is extended in a different direction in his detailed mandala paintings.

... self-assertion. These words are quotations made by historical authors: hieroglyphs by the Chinese poet and painter Mi Fu, calligraphy by the Japanese samurai Yamaolka Tesshu and the Japanese Zen master, painter and scholar Gibon Sengai, extracts from Ludwig van Beethoven's letter to his "immortal beloved" and from The German Ideology (by Karl Marx, assisted by Friedrich Engels).

Well, I made it to Germany, and just had dinner with Sarah! She made some wonderbar Fajitas for us in her charming little apartment. I am very tired from all the travelling, and am very greatfull to be staying put for a few days. I guess I have hit the wall so to speak, the half way mark, and I have many thoughts on my mind. But seeing ...

Der Kurs beginnt am Mittwoch, den 28. Juli, 18.00 Uhr mit dem Abendessen und endet am Sonntag, den 8. August 2004 mit dem Mittagessen. "Zweiter internationaler Meditationskurs" Mittwoch, 28. Juli abends bis Dienstag, 3. August 2004 abends mit S. H. 17.Gyalwa Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje und Lama Ole Nydahl Mittwoch, 28. Juli 19.00 Uhr "Belehrungen mit Lama Ole Nydahl" Donnerstag, 29. Juli "Buddha des grenzenlosen Lichts" Freitag, 30. Juli "2. Karmapa Karma ...

... 62-jährige Däne erklärt buddhistische Sichtweise sowie Philosophie und leitet Meditationen an. Weitere Lehrer vermitteln Grundlagen zur Meditationspraxis. Als Auftakt und Höhepunkt gibt Shamar Rinpoche, der zu den bedeutendsten Lehrern des tibetischen Buddhismus zählt, eine seltene Zeremonie auf den "Buddha des Grenzenlosen Lichts" (sanskrit "Amitabha"). Schon seit 1992 kommen jährlich Buddhisten der tibetischen Karma ...