Charis Cooper

22/10/2024

I was very sceptical about Temu, but they're good as gold.

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22/10/2024

Jah... Jah... Jah... JETZT!!!!

08/12/2023

One of the big loves of my life - the Bibliotheca Albertina in Leipzig. I miss her very much.

06/12/2023

Today I tried a Tarot Writing prompt:
PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE

Patience is a virtue
I was born without

Patience is a virtue
Not well measured out

I was born
With ice and fire
I was born a
Thunderstorm

Patience is like torture,
Patience is a bore -

And yet it's rather vital
I must have used up saints galore.

Life's a dumb and dull recital,
Please excuse me if I snore.

05/12/2023

I sometimes hate being a writer. It's hard to explain, but there's not much of a choice in that - the writing just forces its way out. It would do so through my closed lips.

I have days I am determined not to write anymore. Defiantly I will type only random nonsense words.

My fingers go to the keys, but I resist.

"Zshdjgkfjsuezdhch", I type, smiling.

My fingers are not done, but I will not comply. I will not let them speak.

"Kerplunk
Kirrplunk
Karpunk
Cha Cha Cha"

And for a brief moment I will feel triumphant.

04/12/2023

I'm a little sad I let people discourage my literary attempts. I'll slowly try and catch up with sharing them.

I wrote the following fragment about 20 years ago. I'll translate it, although it's more expressive in German:

When I woke, in joyful anticipation of another wasted day, the doorbell rang. The mailman! Damnit! I had dreaded this. Crestfallen, I accepted the parcel and opened it dutyfully.

"Creativity Rules!"

The title of the book leapt out and took on the shape of an armed revolutionary, challenging me with his gaze.
I cast a quick glance at his dagger - what was the French word for dagger again?
I asked him.

"Don't deflect!" he hissed.
Embarrassed I poured some coffee in my cup, offered it to him. He knocked it out of my hand.
"Come on, what are you wanting for? The world is yours! We have to start right away! "
I squirmed. "Well, you know - what would I be doing with the world... And besides, it waits."
He looked at me with irritation.
"Besides, I've a mountain of laundry waiting for me, the sink is overfull, and I haven't finished my phonetics exercises either..."
"No problem," he said in a hurry and got to work immediately.

"S**t." I sighed deeply. "Where can I get a new excuse from now?

01/12/2023

This literally has been the writing on my wall this year. "Live. Live. Laugh. Learn." I feel I've done all these things.

01/12/2023

Finally the time of the year to slow down, to enjoy more stillness, and to spend more time with our loved ones. I sound soppy, but I've secretely always loved this time of the year.

28/08/2023

I've had to leave my home, the UK, which is an incredibly painful process. When packing up I found this collage I made of the cycle of life and death, of dying and becoming. I haven't named it yet - please make your title suggestions.

19/08/2023

Strange, but true: I've never before written a song in my mother tongue. Therefore, because I've written an abundance of poems in German before, I started from there. A rough draft for me to play with, and, possibly, to perform here in a few weeks time.

18/08/2023

Found a piano. I always do.

17/08/2023

Let's play a game - I took a picture of the shadows on the floor, what do you see in them? ( You can turn it, if you like.) Please tell me in the comments.