The Abe Forum

...this dog has a lot of chichi or chi chi going on.... I just learned that the term comes from French and it's source is onomatopoeic. Imagine girls, talking with each other in a "fancy", exaggerated style... it sounds like a high pitched "chi chi chichi...."

spiritualcookie wrote: ↑Fri Jul 26, 2024 9:43 am

Paradise-on-Earth wrote: ↑Fri Jul 26, 2024 9:38 am

What is "chi chi"?

I wasn't aware that this is probably a German phrase only... it means, extra fancy or kitschy decorations and embellishments... including sticking out your pinky when drinking tea and showing off you beautiful muscles! (so, this things that are normally looked down at, but that can be SUCH fun!)

ahh I see! I love the term! It somehow suits it! It'll be fun to add it to my vocabulary and see how people respond to it!

I love it!

aww the chichi dog!! so cute!

...so many delightful paths that I've been on...

"Allow what is, and watch what happens."(Abe)
...I enjoy my Journey!

Day 13

"My path"...
...my path is, to "just go" (as a very wise travel advisor has told me)... take each day as it comes, and deal with the problems as good as I can, AND ENJOY THE ADVENTURE. ENJOY THE SURPRISES!



I feel SO MUCH JOY "here" and "here" and "here"! Not much needs to happen. I am soooo satisfied being where I am- mostly "disabled" in my bed. Where I have SO MUCH ability to scan what fascinates me! I know in great details what travel means this days in the luxury segment! I am fascinated what is possible, and I LOVE the awesome beautiful ideas that feel like paradise! Ohhh, this is a time of deep peace and fascinated gathering of knowledge and "taking it in", for me. No big own creativity, not much running around, no fuzz. And still- SO incredibly MUCH IS HAPPENING.

My son the Designer "flew by" from a lecture he was holding in a newly built University, and to drop off his interview in a professional journal. Of course, Mom (which is me ) is suuuuuper proud! And baking his favourite cake... While I was ruffling him boldly for being arrogant and respectless with me. Keeping the balance! ...Doing this since he's alive... and witnessing the results of him becoming babystep by babystep so much more socially compatible. Being soooo proud of this, myself.

My other son shares fascinating insights, ideas and youtube clips with me about recent political issues, and I so like to be a contemporary witness of this amazing time we all live in, and to look at the "leaders" of political- and social- and cultural life that are in the forefronts... I so love to be open for my sons opinions and informations, and the stunning insights and sharings of all sorts of passionate experts, while I know exactly what resonates with me and what not so much. I feel so well educated and right in the middle of what is shifting and changing and I still just look where it really feels good to me.

I feel so blessed to live in this thrilling days! I feel so blessed to talk to my grandkids and soothe my daughter. I feel blessed to open up a chance for his new life-dream for my 3. son, while I am enforcing boldly my needs in the whole thing. It feels RICH. It feels fascinating. It feels so joyful! It feels light. It feels easy. I AM EAGER FOR MORE!!! I am so eager for more, while I feel such satiated, loving, happy, clear PEACE.


having visited a foodtruck festival, just around the corner. Yum!!!


field just outside of my village

...so many delightful paths that I've been on...

"Allow what is, and watch what happens."(Abe)
...I enjoy my Journey!

Day 14

"My path"...
...I feel, I long for the FREEDOM. I long for my world, revolving around ME. Not catering to this crazy world And all this people who really are supposed to care for themselves, just as me!! I care to take care of ME. I long to really really be ABOUT MYSELF.

And my life really really provides a "nest" and circumstances for me where I can do that to such a huge degree! I SO ENJOY THIS!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE my huge freedom!!!
And I still hesitate to fully wholly embrace it. "Abnoxiously", "outrageously" (I so love that Abe use this bold hilariously brutal words!!!). I want to be FREE, no matter what!!






Slowly, in babysteps, I am getting there. Better and better and better. Hey, "Relief" is the name of the game, right??
I AM SATISFIED with that!! And so eager for more!

I saw this and thought of you!

spiritualcookie wrote: ↑Tue Jul 30, 2024 7:03 am I saw this and thought of you!

Awwww! THANK YOU!!! (It takes one to know one!! )
You have sprinkled not only this Forum but Instagram, too, today with little tokens of love and appreciation, for me... I enjoy it so much!
you are an angel!!

...so many delightful paths that I've been on...

"Allow what is, and watch what happens."(Abe)
...I enjoy my Journey!

Day 15

"My path"...
...Besides finding a love- and appreciating-by cookie- sprinkled path through social media today
...I find sooo much beauty on my google-searches.
Today and yesterday I was inspired to think about my bucket-list and in the chapter "travel", I listed:


Travel all 7 seas
-with different luxury-cruise-ships, including
-Windjammer- Sail-cruises, and a
-Transatlantic-crossing on a Liner; ....and setting foot into:

the Arctic Ocean, seeing the Northern Lights
the North Atlantic Ocean including the Mediterranean Sea
the South Atlantic Ocean
the Indian Ocean
the North Pacific Ocean
the South Pacific Ocean
the Southern (or Antarctic) Ocean
Passing through the Suez Canal
Passing through the Panama Canal

-Step foot on all 7 continents,
-visit the countries and iconic capitals, and
-travel on the largest- and most iconic rivers of the World:

-Europe

Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Munich, Nürnberg, Cologne, Bonn, Dresden/ Germany
2. Paris, Marseille, Straßburg, Arles, Nice, Cannes, Avignon/ France
3. Vienna, Salzburg /Austria
4. Lisbon/ Portugal
5. Rome, Naples, Cinque Terre, Milan, Triest, Venice / Italy
6. Ljubljana, Bled, Lippica / Slowenia
7. Monaco
8. Amsterdam, Maastricht / Netherlands
9. Brussels, Bruges / Belgium
10. Prague, Carlsbad / Czechia
11. Valetta / Malta
12. Vatican City
13. Bern, Zurich, Geneva / Switzerland
14. Athens / Greece
15. Budapest, Hungary
16. Bukarest, Rumania
17. Dublin, Ireland
18. Helsinki, Finland
19. Oslo, Norway
20. Stockholm / Sweden
21. Kopenhagen, Denmark
22. London, UK
23. Madrid, Barcelona / Spain
24. Moscow, Russia
25. Reykjavik, Iceland
26. Sofia, Bulgaria
27. Warshaw, Polen
28. Zagreb, Croatia

Danube + Rhine/Main/Danube-channel: Starting from my Home-city in Germany, through 7 countries into the Black Sea
Rhine: From Switzerland to Netherlands, through 4 countries, visiting the Christmas-markets
Volga and the Russian Lakes: Through Russia from Moscow to St. Petersburg

-North America
New York City, Seattle, Mt Rushmore, Yellowstone; USA
Vancouver, Calgary, Victoria, Banff; Canada

Mississippi: Southern US-States with an old-style, real paddle wheel steamboat
St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes: East-Canada and USA

-South America
Amazon: From Peru through Brasil into the Atlantic Ocean

-Australia and Ozeania
Murray River: in a beautiful old-style Paddlewheeler through the Southern Australian Outback

-Asia
Mekong: Thailand/Kambodscha/Vietnam
Ganges/Brahmaputra: East-India
Irrawaddy: from the Himalaya through Myanmar

-Africa
Nile: Egypt
Zambesi- and Chobe River with Victoria Falls: Zimbabwe

-Antarctica


...I just did it again!! IT IS SUCH FUN!!!
I am soooo satisfied to dream! I am soooo eager to imagine and google and find out all the beauty... I found just in this last 48 hrs SO MUCH beauty by looking up ideas about Australia.



....you can do a river-cruise on the Murray-River, with a classic paddlewheeler, that got built not only for the Mississippi, but in Australia, too!



...you can do a self-guided roadtrip through the amazing spring north of Perth, and enjoy the wildflower-season... do camping under a stunning sky of sparking stars... adore the wildlife, eat amazing totally unknown food, meet wonderful friendly people... be "surprised and delighted".

It is SO SATISFYING to see all this treasurechests, one after the other, opening up when you type in a search-word!! It is so stunning, thrilling, beyond appreciation to see how beautiful our planet is, and what nature and man have co-created. It is so inspiring. It is so wonderful. And I am sooo eager to go there physically and see, ear, smell, taste, touch it!!

THANK YOU, THANK YOU LIFE!!!

spiritualcookie wrote: ↑Tue Jul 30, 2024 1:08 pm