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…
Monday morning, the 18th of May, The Mayor called me Mr. Brand, and I said, yes, here I am. I was ready for hedgehog. In our garden, we have five hedgehogs now, and somehow they had become the important people of the house. The Mayor said they had questions for me, because hedgehogs want to…
Episode 47 begins in the usual state of Peeling Potatoes readiness: technically live, spiritually scattered, and administratively suspicious. The Mayor is trying to make windows smaller, find his questions, check the episode number, remember what day it is, and pretend that twenty-five prepared questions means he is in control. Fruitloop calmly reveals that she has…
It was Friday, not Monday, and already that made everything a little bit different. Normally when The Mayor and I meet, it is Monday morning, eight o’clock, and the week is standing there with both feet on my chest. But this time it was Friday. The sun was shining, the engine was warm, the grill…
