Tomorrow I’m going to leave towards Finland for almost four weeks. That’s why I visited Nadine’s resting place two times today: In the morning I followed my usual walking routine and in the evening I went there by car to say goodbye, tell her a few words, sing her a song or two and drop some rose petals there. I’ve never been away from her grave for longer than six days in a row so I’m a bit afraid of what this absence will do to me. I will be back shortly before July 28th, the day it is going to be half a year since she  pased away so untimely. If you stop by her grave until then, please be so kind to water the site.

Before I fly out to Helsinki on Sunday, my first stop will be in Munich on Friday. Together with some friends I’m going to see Thurston Moore perform his new album live. When he released his last one, Nadine and me saw him at Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona. Back in spring 2015, he opened with a song that contains a message I cannot have repeated often enough: