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Luck can be fair.

2019 was difficult, emotional, and exiting, but definitely not my finest year.

• As always I started the year with holidays on the Canary Islands.
• I made a pair of wooden skis by hand, which I am very proud of. But I also hurt my knee the first week I used them…

• I travelled much less this year, and was very happy to spend all summer in Norway. Actually, I travelled to Senja, Tucson and China.
• I walked on the edge of Grand Canyon.

• I started with bookbinding and make note books from old books.
• I published a handbook with 115 authors. I’ve been working on this paper and book for 3 years. I also wrote a blogpost about it.
• I started my own project, the Three-D project. I set up my first and own experiment in Norway and in China.
• For the third time, I posted a picture every day and will continue to do so.
• I did not get funding from NFR this year.
• I baked a bread on the fire.
• I did not move back to Switzerland but stayed a little bit longer in Bergen. And this is fine for now, it is fine for a little bit longer.

I am still working on (re)discovering the purpose of life, staying wild, focus on what I want to give and not what I want to take and understand that nobody owes me anything (some of this is borrowed by Dr. Jacquelyn Gill).

And I want to blog a little bit more next year.

I’m glad to live in the Twenties!

„Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like “struggle.” To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.“ Fred Rogers

Watch the documentary about Fred Rogers and his television show for kids: Mister Rogers‘ Neighborhood.

• I organized two trait courses, one in the Andes in Peru, and another one close to the North Pole on Svalbard. It was fun to see two very different places and meet and work with so many people.
• I did lots of wonderful ski trips with my new touring skis.

• I had a sunny and warm summer in Bergen and Switzerland.
• I walked alone to Trolltunga.

• For the second time, I posted a picture every day and will continue to do so.
• I started my third instagram channel about science: fromgrassesandsheep.
• I worked a from different places like Håvoll and Buechberg.
• I travelled around the world this year: Peru, Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Amsterdam and Iceland.

• 2018 was a very emotional year for me.
• I discovered camping in the cold season.
• I got an NFR grant to start my own research project and have a job for another 4 years.
• I published 5 papers.

Thanks to everybody who shared 2018 with me!

I don’t make new years resolutions, that’s stupid, but for 2019, I want to (re)discover the purpose of life, focus on what I want to give and not what I want to take and understand that nobody owes me anything (some of this is borrowed by Dr. Jacquelyn Gill). Stay wild, read lot’s of papers and books, do amazing field work in Norway, China and maybe Switzerland, learn to bake bread in the fire. If I am lucky I might move back to Switzerland but maybe I’ll just stay a little bit longer in Bergen. And I want to „create“ more things again: make bags, purses with cool fabric and leather, maybe learn to dye fabric and make a pair of ski’s (I don’t have enough yet).