do simple things everyday

i've returned from two months of sleeping on friends' couches in new york city back to berlin — to an unrecognizably beautiful, green summer, and it feels like becoming a newborn again — like opening my eyes at each new day, and asking myself: what do I want to do with myself? how do I wish to be?

the answer is simple. I do the same thing everyday.

to care for the animal body:

• sleep

• eat

• move

• breathe

to care for the heart-mind-soul body, all that which makes me human —

• listen — writing in my journal, listening to the trees & the birds

• create — small forms of expression, little drawings & writings

• learn — a language, something about life

• love — as a daily act of care

what else matters, in the end? fame and fortune. life and death. perhaps the trick to living an honest life — is to give ourselves many opportunities to ask this question. many moments of starting again; moments of pause to ask and realign with what is true.

doing the same thing everyday can feel good — if it is truly what you want. the question I'm always asking is: now. what do I want? now.