Given today’s occasion I typed ’51’ in my Flickr collection and up came a long list of images, that seems wholly arbitrary to me. For most I can’t even see why it would be a result of this search term. I selected some to post here, where collated they may seem to have meaning. What else is our role as sentient beings than to ascribe meaning to the things we observe?
On the Rigi, central Switzerland, enjoying the views with E and dear friends, 2010
The Stair Case in the old Zeche Zollverein coal mine in Essen, Germany, with E, 2006
On the coast near Nantes, France, with E in 2013
Early breakfast having Lake Louise in British Columbia to ourselves for a few minutes, with E, 2008
A garage door in Madrid, with E in 2014
Noone is born for themselves, nemo sibi nascitur, from Erasmus’s adagia collection, on the wall of the Dutch Architecture Institute in Rotterdam, 2008.
Hope the day was wonderful and with more images to add to a great and colourful life. Happy days ahead!
Very happy day to you!
Thank you dear Monica and Paolo!
go 51 go! Here’s to 51 more!
A busy week, mostly because of stuff left over from last week. It was also the week I turned 51, my second birthday during the pandemic, so we had a quiet day to ourselves. Y had another week off from school.
This week I:
Wrote two workshop reports, that took most of the first half of the week
Created a draft presentation explaining the logic and consistency of the coming EU legal framework w.r.t. digital services, data and AI. To be held twice next week
Created the agenda and prep materials for a meeting next week
Went to see a framer to discuss and choose the right frames for a painting, a silk screen print, and a photo print. Should be ready end of next week.
Had the weekly project team and client team meetings for our citizen science air quality project in Rotterdam
Finally got to enjoy a day in the garden in the sun, Thursday
Spent lots of time exploring the neighbourhood with Y on her bike
Deleted my Evernote account finally. Turns out doing that also deleted shared notes created by E in Notebooks created by me (the logic of which escapes me). Switching off wifi before opening up her Evernote prevented Y’s birthday wish list for the end of the month from disappearing. This as that list was the only thing more recent than the back-ups I made a while ago before deleting my account.
Party garlands over the dining table in honor of my birthday this week