Some mornings feel like a race before the starting whistle even blows. When Janita called me for our English meeting, my husband was busy leaving, I was tired from too much work, and honestly, I still felt half asleep. The night before had been busy because I had training in the evening and only went…
There are business lunches. There are strategy meetings. And then there are the strange little intellectual expeditions that happen when Professor Fruitloop decides to open the doors of “Fruitloop University” and drag me through higher education whether I consent or not. Which, apparently, I did not. The lunch began innocently enough. Just the two of…
The weather had been behaving strangely for weeks, and everybody seemed to have a different opinion about it. One application promised sunshine, another storms, another wind. Even Fruitloop laughed about it because she remembered I’d been checking the forecast almost obsessively before the flea market. We only finished preparing the car at nine in the…
Join the conversation; come as you are. In May, our Theme of the Month is Play. Not just games or laughter, though we welcome both. Play is also curiosity, freedom, creativity, risk, imagination, and the small moments when language becomes less about being correct and more about being alive. Our Brida Tables are online conversation…
I think, unfortunately, it is not possible to have a time machine. But I wish for that. That is maybe the first thing The Mayor should understand. When I said the words time machine, he immediately became interested. For him it was already a door opening into the Plaza, probably with a cartoon cave, a…
Brida — a space for people who have something to say Sometimes you only understand what you have built when you stop looking at the individual pieces and begin to see the pattern. This happened to me recently when I looked at the Pineapple archive. There are now more than 300 articles in it. And…
I was really, really tired when I spoke with Fruitloop, but also very happy because my weekend was completely crazy in the best way possible. I had just come back from Austria, and honestly it felt like I was inside one Disney movie mixed with mountains, snow, beer, bridges, and a little bit of panic….
I grew up in Cleebourg, a small village in Alsace. Maybe there were 700 people. For some people, this is very small. For me, it was home. But when I was already five, six, seven years old, I had something in my head. I wanted to see the world. At school, my favourite subjects were…
Ismar: I Think We Had More Interesting Childhoods When The Mayor asked about the games we loved to play as children, I did not think first about something very special. I thought about soccer. Maybe this is normal in Brazil. Maybe not only in Brazil. The first memory is not always the most important one,…
I knew before we started that this would be difficult. Some topics are easy for me. When we speak about customers, meetings, football, discipline, trust, preparation, I can find my way. These are things from my daily life. I know them. I live them. I can explain them with stories. But playful thinking? That was…
