It’s been a busy little season, but within that have been the makings of a little online writing project, 100 Love Letters to Berlin. With this, I have been trying to write a brief piece every day or so in the format of a love letter to none other than the city in which I currently reside. This started as an exercise to put into words the positives about living here, as a mental training exercise for thinking about Berlin appreciatively rather than with regret or anger. It’s only been nine days, but I honestly think it’s working.

As you might recall from my post a couple of weeks ago, I made a resolution to “invest more in Berlin”. I clarified that separately both as an ‘event’ and a ‘project’ and pretty much gave myself zero parameters for how to conduct such an investment whatsoever. (That could be a…