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Kathryn M. Werntz

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life is lookin' up!
i'm in berlin!

in: apfeltaschen
out: bagels

in: graffiti
out: community murals

in: fixed fibula
out: torn tendon

in: socialists
out: anti-socialists

in: off-road, protected, red brick bike lanes with bicycle traffic signals blinking green for 2 seconds before car traffic signals, and set about 5 feet
ahead of car lanes.
out: shared bikelanes, faded white marking, no bike traffic signals, and right-hand turn collisions

in: open containers
out: open container laws

in: 100% wool
out: polymides

in: berlin
out: brooklyn

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porter hard at work
porter hard at work
ah, Holland. free to smoke. free to rearrange airport furniture.
…and as we take for granted that the grains of sand pass in a familiar and effortless manner through the hourglass of time …so, too, do we take for granted that our luggage, that all of our pieces of luggage, pass in a familiar and effortless manner through the heavy, black plastic weather flap onto the conveyor belt. wearily swaying in baggage claim, this dream was not to be realized in Berlin-Tegel, airport of lost luggage. we were reunited a couple of days later…and people ask me why I insist on bringing the cats into the cabin?! …and so satur [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 5th 2009 | 98 Views | [diary=442322]

all this over a dummy?
making a break 4 it
my favorite bricks

tree pose
tree pose
not bad for a virgin yoga chic with a broken leg, eh?
Being a tico or tica also means that you have a pretty great chance of being literate, and having enough money to provide for yours and your families’ basic needs. Desperation was not apparent, if certain shelters perhaps did suggest poverty. Desperation also kept this gringo from having any meaningful or unmeangingful interactions with the locals. The best conversation I had was with my wheelchair pusher when I arrived in the airport, with my private limo service driver nowhere to be found my new amigo used his own coins to operate a public phone to check on things. Yes, yours truly [View Full Entry]

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Published: February 19th 2009 | 123 Views | [diary=375151]

digestive view
um, you know me...
can he lead americans to think beyond the final frontiers?

Five days of serenity, though, and I started feeling the superficiality of my experience: barely a local spoke to me, kids playing in the street didn’t even flinch as I flashed a smile and my newfound hola. No one called out good-day on the beach, no one wanted me to buy their necklaces, an occasional pelican provided entertainment, a radio thumped instead of a djembe, a whole week without one single marriage proposal…where was my Africa? For all of its seaweed and seafood, these beachy waters, along with their rotting coral reef apparently, were dead. In a country with rich na [View Full Entry]

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Published: February 19th 2009 | 84 Views | [diary=375150]

dendrolicious
me second favorites....
true colors

and people think sloths don
and people think sloths don
this scruffy one got up all its energy to scratch. the sloth is the ultimate symbol of Costa Rican pace. its name and logo is etched across many a wooden b&b, restaurant, sport rental and kitsch shop.... [more]
I must have been processing my Latin American experience aloud more than what was welcomed by my fellow single travelers at the retreat. Lush green and rough bark vines streamered our dining patio, looking over the Caribbean sea and sleepy surfer town below. Joe, a would-be bruiser from north Jersey if it were not for his Shakespeare softness, interrupted my storytelling with, “oh, let me guess, in Africa…” The rest of our motley nightly dinner crew giggled, and I quieted for the moment. I couldn’t help but compare everything around me to “Africa” - gene [View Full Entry]

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Published: February 19th 2009 | 94 Views | [diary=375146]

just hangin' around
pinch me!
chin-chin ladies

papers, please?
papers, please?
wanna be a dogsitter? forget references, just stick up your name and number and a promise of canine love. i got to spend 3 days with this handsome man. baskerette of the hounds. i strolled the hip str... [more]
Any experience, anytime, anyplace. Just show up. I went places and tried things I never have before. Berliners have a way of making you feel comfortable with dropping your American cool and just joining in the fun. You can become anyone. Just follow some basic rules of organization, engineering and privacy and you're fine. [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 25th 2008 | 84 Views | [diary=304153]

spoke the hub
drunken sailors
mmmmh....

visual splendor
visual splendor
which corner, which color to look at first. the second time. the third time i pass. dietmar shot this photo, i was too busy being wooed by Berlin.
Something is always in the air, or on the wall. Berlin is vibe. healthy, wealthy. and definitely, proud. [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 25th 2008 | 61 Views | [diary=304146]

edible art
in the mood for love
got candy?

ferrying on my fahrrad
ferrying on my fahrrad
the most intelligent bicycle locks i've ever had the honor of using.
Firsts: A few feats of German engineering and history unveiled. To me personally. [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 25th 2008 | 129 Views | [diary=304136]

Troddel Markt treasures
calling all stations...
don't google it

Anything is possible in Berlin. Berlin is raw. Real. Berlin is everything Williamsburg wishes it was and tries to be - or perhaps what it once was. Berlin would swallow Williamsburg whole. Especially East Berlin. Art is everywhere and doesn’t need to be called Art. Artists are everywhere and don’t need to be called Artists. These streets are oozing individuality, creative expression abounds, people do whatever they feel like doing (not quite to a level to breach the lowest common denominator of German civility, however). Some neighborhoods expose a stifling, confused [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 25th 2008 | 63 Views | [diary=304130]


pucker up!
pucker up!
i just love seeing these prehensile lips approaching mine
I must finally be getting over him.... Considering I puckered up to no less than 6 eligible caramel and cream bachelors this morning... Yes sirree, I’m movin' on. I mean, Abu will always be my first. But not my one and only - as I see a long caravan of camels in my future. And I was absolutely delighted to be in the middle of a camel cuddling orgy today. Their thick Berlin accents prevented any serious conversation, but their sweetness was conveyed through snorts and nibbles. Unbelievably docile and well...short, compared to Abu - the experience was soothing and a [View Full Entry]

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Published: May 2nd 2008 | 86 Views | [diary=272291]

vroom vroom
gnomeless
my first wild asparagus

Beam me up
Beam me up
The tallest radome. Deserted, in ruins, creepy.
I have always trusted my neighbors. You? In childhood, they became my family. At college, perhaps at 3am I had to knock on the ceiling or floor to quiet them down, but it was all love otherwise. At 18th & T, the gay guys chatted gardens and cuisine with me. In Pavia, they laughed with me over Mexico’s tendency to adopt new families. On East 2nd Street in Brooklyn, we cozied up on couches to watch films or talk art, took care of one another’s pets, bbq’d regularly and shared urban living secrets. In Senegal, well, there’s nothing you don’t share [View Full Entry]

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Published: April 28th 2008 | 80 Views | [diary=270930]

target practice
area 51?
holiday, honey?



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