10pm or something like this, slowly phasing out of this day. There's still a feeling a promise an idea of light floating across the roofs and streets and meadows and parks. Late news on huge screens, a same as late Sunday dinner on a huge table, candle-lit and close enough to the balcony door to see and be seen, watch and be watched. Taking a few notes of what kept this mind moving today, and then backing off to let the dreams float in again. Have a calm night wherever you are.
Erheblich später: Wieder zur Ruhe kommen. Der Samstag schwingt aus. An der Bushaltestelle findet sich die Jugend des Viertels ein, wie so oft und trotz erneuter Kälte. Die Musik kommt mit, aus unersichtlicher Quelle, dunkel, kantig, schwermütig. Zigaretten glühen, der Hauch nicht nur von Tabak schwebt den Bürgersteig entlang. Und leises Gelächter, das immer ein wenig besänftigt in vielen Belangen. Nah genug, fern genug, Fenster öffnen, den Moment atmen, bevor man sich wieder einlässt auf all die Träume. Have a soft night wherever you are.
10pm and on and the sounds slowly calming. Infrastructure thrown away, reconsidered, set up again. Bits still not completely aligned. Meditating complexity and technical advances and being stuck mentally in a more comfortable past and wondering where to draw the line between what's meaningful and affordable and merely interesting to mess with. Indifferent to all this, constellations show up behind the neighbourhood roofs, there are stars on a sky devoid of dense clouds tonight and a shapeless late spring day is drifting into celestial void again. Have a quiet night wherever you are.
Finally, not too much in a hurry anymore yet somehow determined to get quiet. Always enough noise to shape a lot of odd dreams of, still though unable to consciously shape this process at least. Lack of lucidity and the late news report on random conditions to put pressure on stock prices and there should have been a disconnect a few moments earlier. Staring at candles until the image blurs. Yawning. A sigh. And then powering down the day. Have a soft night wherever you are.
Später am Tag, immer noch früher als gedacht, in mehr Müdigkeit, als um diese Stunde erwartet. Manche Themen tanzen noch durch das Bewusstsein, weigern sich hartnäckig, Ruhe zu geben. Gegenüber leben vertraute Geschichten hinter vertrauten Balkontüren, man isst zu Abend und sieht fern und lässt beiseite, was jetzt keine Bühne braucht. Immer nur einen Traum vor dem Montag. Have a calm night wherever you are.