🌸 Hilpertstrasse in Darmstadt was named after my great-grandfather. It doesn't just share my name, it's directly connected to my heritage.

🏫 I walked down that street because I had an entrance exam there. I'll find out next week whether I was accepted. I didn't choose the location because the street bears my family name, and because it's such a strange coincidence, there's an indescribable energy that comes with it. A strange synchronicity in the womb of the universe.

🧭 That was a moment in which the world felt a bit surreal. As if I'd briefly stepped out of the normal flow of life and perceived something bigger. Perhaps also a connection to my own history, to the people who came before me.

🌌 I feel neither bigger nor smaller because of it, but more deeply connected.

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A pleasant variation! 😊🌾🌼

🌳🌾🍎🏡 Right in the heart of Germany lies a hidden dune landscape. It’s a striking and unexpected contrast to the typical surroundings of meadows, forests, fields, and traditional orchard grasslands.

🧭🦬🌬 The Schwanheim Dune is a remarkable natural monument in the western part of Frankfurt am Main. It was formed around 10,000 years ago at the end of the last Ice Age, when strong winds blew sand from the dried-out bed of the River Main and piled it into dunes. Such inland dunes, located far from any coastline, are rare – unlike the more common coastal dunes found in northern Germany.

🌲🪵🏰 Originally, the dune was covered by forest, but in the Middle Ages, large areas were cleared for farming and intensively logged for timber. As a result, the sandy soil was exposed to wind and erosion. Without protective vegetation, the sand began to drift and posed a threat to nearby settlements and farmland. To stabilize the area, pine trees were planted – many of which still shape parts of the landscape today.

🌾🦟🌿 Despite these changes, a portion of the open sandy terrain remained – providing habitat for rare, specialized plants and animals adapted to dry, nutrient-poor conditions. Today, the Schwanheim Dune is a protected natural area and a valuable ecological refuge.

🌼🌸🏵 Walking along the boardwalk, I came across beautiful wildflowers such as St. John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum), viper’s bugloss (Echium vulgare), and the evening-primrose (Oenothera biennis). Grey hair-grass (Corynephorus canescens) is also typical of this dry dune environment. While it is widespread in the many dune landscapes of northern Germany, the species is considered endangered in the state of Hesse.

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Who needs speed when you have irresistible charm? 🦥🌿✨️

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Magnolias are among my favorite flowering plants. I suspect that's because as a child I was always so excited when I could admire the flowers from my dinosaur book in real life. Magnolias are sometimes called living fossils because they have been known since the Cretaceous period. I still remember the artist's impression from my book of the Triceratops surrounded by blooming magnolias.

A special feature of magnolias is that they specialize in pollination by beetles. Beetles are evolutionarily older than bees, and magnolias have retained very close to their primal characteristics.

I saw this star magnolia yesterday in Frankfurt. Not far away, a huge tulip magnolia was also in bloom. In Oberursel, the magnolias I saw are not yet in bloom, but are also about to open their blossoms.

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👻🌸 88 percent of all men receive flowers for the first time at their funeral.

⚘️ I am 38 years old and have only received flowers (made of plastic) once. I am very open about my preference for flowers.

🦋✨️ I really try hard to be seen, and yet I am mostly reduced to superficialities. If I even show myself vulnerable, I should almost be grateful not to be sanctioned.

🫡🤷‍♂️🖼 This is also evident in my posts. Compliments often concern the object depicted (beautiful flower, great sunset, nice body) but rarely the manner of depiction, let alone the meta-level of what is depicted.

🧠💯✌️ By the way, I received my acceptance yesterday after passing my entrance exam!

⚙️🔢🎨 That's another point: artistic talent and mathematical-technical understanding are often seen as irreconcilable opposites, even though there are sufficient examples of compatibility, both historically and in contemporary terms.

🌈👨‍🎨👨‍💻💭 As a media designer and computer scientist, I can do both, and over the next few years I will be deepening my mathematical understanding.

👨‍🏫👾👩‍🏫 Computer science and mathematics, by the way, are still male-dominated fields. Mainly because women are often not trusted or encouraged to do so. However, the first person to write a computer program was a woman. Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) was a British mathematician and socialite. She was the daughter of the poet Lord Byron.

🎭🧩💬 By the way, 70 percent of my followers are women. I've posted quite a few things that women could have commented on, because they concern issues that are, or should be, important to women as well.

🌱 Just saying.

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Yesterday, I had to run some errands for my entrance exam for my mathematics and technical education program. On the way home, an inner urge led me to the cemetery where some of my ancestors are buried. I cleared the grave of fallen branches and reflected on the passage of time. These Higan cherries were blooming beautifully in the cemetery. Higan, 彼岸, means "distant shore". I have my exam tomorrow. It will take place at an address on a street named after my great-grandfather, the Hilpertstrasse in Darmstadt. He was a politician who is buried in this cemetery.

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🌸🪻🌞 Heather (Calluna vulgaris) blooms from late summer to autumn. How wonderful that we have a heath in Oberursel where I can admire this beautiful flower!

🏰🌾 The Stierstadt Heath, covering 3.2 hectares, has existed since the Middle Ages. The inhabitants of that time cleared the area and used the humus to fertilize their fields. This created the barren soil in which heather grows very well.

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As you can see, I’ve successfully completed 2nd grade! ✨😊

I’m sharing my primary school report from 1994 because ADHD, which has been with me since childhood, wasn’t diagnosed until I was 20. The quieter, mixed type often goes unnoticed. Even back then, my dreamy nature was clear, as I sometimes drifted away in class, lost in my thoughts. However, when a subject sparked my curiosity - like natural sciences - it was easier for me to engage. These topics appealed more directly to my ADHD-affected reward system, allowing me to focus and work more effectively. Distractions still impact me, especially with motor skills, but I’ve learned ways to adapt. ADHD often leads to deep, lifelong interests - and, yes, sometimes we forget our homework.😅

"Frederic has successfully completed the 2nd grade. He has a good grasp of basic multiplication. Addition and subtraction within 100 are more challenging for him. With word problems, he usually only recognizes the necessary calculation operation with external help.

In German, he reads simple words and texts but still struggles with unfamiliar and longer words. He sometimes does not understand the content of more difficult texts. When copying, he usually makes only a few mistakes, whereas he has more problems with practiced dictations. His writing is still somewhat uneven, and he sometimes has difficulty keeping within the lines. Frederic has attended a German support course. In general studies, he is particularly interested in natural science topics and works well here.

He could be more proactive in physical education, as his performance is good. In music, he sometimes participates in elements of the lessons (singing, rhythm, movement games to music, listening to music). He paints and draws very well but is still quite clumsy with manual tasks.

Frederic is very dreamy and usually works only minimally. He often does not understand work instructions and cannot yet work independently. He completes written tasks carefully and with concentration but needs a lot of time to do so. Sometimes he forgets to do his homework."

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While the Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiaca) is only known to most Europeans as an invasive species, it once had divine significance in its namesake homeland. Although its original distribution area extended across almost the entire African continent, it was particularly worshipped in ancient Egypt, especially around Thebes. There it was considered a deity, Gengen Wer, "the great cackler," whose loud cackle filled the primordial darkness and who laid the world egg in a mulberry tree in Heliopolis, from which light and the world then emerged. This deity was one of the various manifestations associated with the complex Egyptian pantheon, which included the fertility aspects of gods like Amun. People assumed that creation was a continuous cycle and that every human being hatched from an underworld goose egg.

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🚉⌚️ Waiting for the train to the next stations of life…

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