this weekend my parents and me decided to hike a 15 km trail by the rhine, along vines and ruins and i realized again how great it is to live in such a beautiful area. i don't want to miss it. why is our planet so full of breathtaking beauty and the human species not really able to comprehend all this? i really think people should be more thankful of what they already have. i'm so thankful to experience the glory that is our earth. if there weren't such things as nature, animals, landscapes, skies and all the things that people tend to oversee because it is mediocre to them, this earth would be so hopeless, more than ever. and i wouldn't have the guts to survive all this. it is because of places like these that help me to live.
the green wild meadows of malchow's sandfeld. in the west of malchow there is a big chunk of forest that spans towards plauer see, a widely 'uncultivated' area these days, but it hasn't always been this way. in my last post i mentioned the nazi munition factory that had been built in these woods, away from prying eyes of their enemies and where they also built an external subcamp for the concentration camp ravensbrück. exactly these woods we explored on a pretty sunny day, betraying the darkness that happened around these parts. isn't it weird that there are places in this world that were built or used by dark forces and horrible regimes and you vist them 80 years later and they are the most peaceful places you can imagine? sometimes my brain can't cope with the contrast of knowing what was in the past and what the present looks and feels like. it definitely leaves me with a strange impression often, kind of like a little sting in my heart and brain that is not ...
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