DRUMBEAT
RITUALSI'll write when something comes up.
A new book, a weekend, an evening. Nothing else. No weekly newsletter, no ads.
The first question
What do you see?
Perception. For weeks she has seen a light in the fog that has no business being there.
CalendarToday, 18:00
FIRE. Do not reschedule.
You never entered this appointment. Created by you. In your sleep.
Order the book
You are not holding this book by accident.
A photographer with 42,000 pictures, not one of them on her wall. A nurse who reads every body but his own, and has not for years. A planner whose calendar holds an appointment she never entered: FIRE. Do not reschedule.
All three roads lead into the same valley, to the same fire, to a wise man who waits for them as if he had never done anything else. His name is Dancing Fire. He explains nothing. He asks three questions.
A story about four days in the mountains, about what we postpone until there is no room left, and about what happens when, for once, you do not reschedule. A story you read in one evening and keep for longer.
He explains nothing. He asks.
The second question
Where are you?
Awareness. In the middle of an early shift he feels his own hand for the first time in years.
The third question
Where does your line go?
Intention. Her calendar holds an appointment she never entered.
Sit down at the fire.
The fire was already burning when nobody was on the way yet. The wise man placed three stones in the circle, the way other people set the table.
The English reading sample follows shortly. Until then, the German sample shows the first pages.
156 pages. One evening.
The English edition is out at Books on Demand, my publisher. Any bookshop can order it through the ISBN.
Switzerland
Books on DemandThe publisher's shop for SwitzerlandPrice in shopEx LibrisOrder through the ISBNPrice in shopGermany, Austria and elsewhere
Books on DemandMy publisher's shopPrice in shopAmazonOrder through the ISBNPrice in shopISBN 978-3-6967-2931-8. Any bookshop can order the book. There is no e-book at the moment.
The fire is the beginning. Two books follow.
Do not reschedule.
One evening with the book. Or an evening with me and the drum, book included, in German.