Money, Freedom and the Art of Happy Living

Those days with all the financial crisis stuff and what not, it might be a rare confession, but I admit:

I am one of those these days rare "European"- feeling guys on this continent. Well, hopefully we are not too few after all...because, hey, despite all troubles, this continent is a great one and it is going to stay around for quite some while - so why not stay friends after all?

Anyway, actually the viewing angle of this blog will often be from a German or European point of view. Reason is that I am living here and most of my personal experience originates in Germany or Europe. At the same time there seems to be a lack of blogging activity and general media coverage of the art-of-living- and downshiftig- topic , at least in Germany and to my knowledge also in most other countries here in Europe (always happy to hear about other activity, though!), whereas many of the blogs I see in that direction are coming from the US.

However I decided to write in (bad) English, because as you know the language spoken most in the world is bad English and I deliberately want to keep the discussion open for those of you who are non-German readers and learn about the input you might have.

But for those folks not so happy writing in English: German posts are warmly welcome as well, so go ahead! If I really concentrate I can also read a bit of French and Spanish, but don’t expect too much langue skills from me there ;)

Have a nice day,
Woodpecker