Things have changed. I never thought I would get this far when I started writing this blog fifteen years ago. Back then, I wrote it for others. I was shy and quiet. My hope was that the blog would show others that I was not entirely boring. That did not work out, of course. Later it became a place to deal with the nostalgia and loneliness that I felt during the PhD. Nowadays, I write the blog for myself. I found meaning in trying to write down thoughts, take pictures, and make objects that have some sort of beauty by themselves. I do not always succeed, but that shift of perspective made it much less relevant whether anyone reads, looks or uses those creations.

Step by step, year by year, I somehow got to 15 years