worried view to the future

The young blue-haired woman seems to look at a bright and sunny window (in a session this week), but the perspectives actually are very, very dark here in Barcelona.

I am almost all day looking at the latest news and very nervous. The situation makes it almost impossible for me to work calmly while outside the plebs is crying for it's so-called "rights" and the helicopters are making noise directly above of my apartment. 

Today, Saturday, is the first quiet day since quite a while. Today's protests where for the first time not of extremists of one or the other side, but of the people with brains (how consoling that so many of them still exist!), asking the governments of all Spain and of Catalonia to stop with their stubborn ways, to sit down, dialog, and do their work for what they are paid for.

Thousands came in white shirts, without national flags, without the hate that the local government spreads as much as it can, quiet, happy, intelligent.

So I use this sunny day to edit some photos from the last session and hope to find more quiet moments in the next days so work more. Although all the signs point to storm: the narcissistic local leader seems to feel up to tear the whole country into the disaster and to provoke a civil war just to satisfy his perverted personal dreams of being a hero.

I cannot imagine how a war, bloody conflicts in the streets, heating the hate in the society of Catalonia, ruining the economy... can be of benefit for the people, but in his limitless cynicism he pretends to do it "for the people".

All the banks and many large companies have already transferred their headquarters out of Catalonia during the last few days. We, the people, have to stay here and wait nervously and powerlessly for if the leader will declare "independence", and thus civil war, this Tuesday evening, or if a wonder happens and a tiny little bit of responsibility falls from somewhere into his little brain that is so tragically greedy for power.

I am very sorry that I have to post such sad texts, but I also want to explain the situation in which I live right now. I hope - I really do! - to soon be able to post much much happier posts!