Welcome to the quest of being alive

Inspiring stories and life experiences by Majka Baur

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  • Image of the Refugio coffee shop in Berlin
    Experiences,  Places

    What does it feel like to be ‘homeless’ as a digital nomad?

    / January 16, 2018

    Digital nomads work remotely and move to new places every few months. Digital nomads are reinventing the concept of ‘home’, without denying the need to feel at home. One December day during my…

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  • Image of a small road in the old town of Tarifa. A coffee shop representing the personal dream that failed is visible.
    Experiences,  People

    Failing a personal dream – the inspiring story of Nathalie

    / November 21, 2017

    Is being afraid of failing, a reason not to develop our personal dreams? When you head off, rowing against the current your heart is full of hope and determination. But what if, you…

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  • Image showing the office of a digital nomad. It displays Stocked, a cafe in Tarifa, Spain that is nicely decorated.
    Experiences,  Places

    How to have a happy workday?

    / November 14, 2017

    Shit, it is Monday. How many times did I have this thought on a Monday morning while commuting on a workday? Even if when I woke up I felt happy, after moving in…

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  • Image of drinking water flowing in stream among rocks and moos patches taken in Norway's National Park Jotunheimen
    Experiences,  Places

    Drinking water from the river – How trekking in Norway changed my relationship to water

    / September 19, 2017

    I could hear it much before I saw it. This roaring sound suddenly broke the silence present in the forest of small birch trees I was crossing. I was walking for several hours…

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  • Experiences

    Welcoming my dad’s death

    / August 2, 2017

    My dad is death and it was such a beautiful present how everything happened I started a life quest to share inspiring stories of people truly being “alive”. But in the last months,…

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  • Experiences

    Death is in the room – powerful conversations

    / July 26, 2017

    Once you accept that you will die soon, the “knots” of life loosen up. I say this, as I saw it happening to my dad. When he signed the notice of termination of…

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  • communicating moving to palliative care hospice difficult
    Experiences

    Moving into a palliative care hospice – my dad’s last house

    / May 30, 2017

    From actively wanting to die, within two weeks his mindset switched into a different state. His body regained some energy, he stood up, walked in the hallway, he even asked me to bring…

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  • Experiences

    When the cancer gets the body – my dad is waiting to die

    / May 13, 2017

    My dad was hospitalized because of his cancer. The day I came back from South Africa I went straight to the hospital to visit him. It was a sunny day with 20°C degrees,…

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  • Experiences

    The blessing and damnation of knowing about my dad’s cancer

    / April 14, 2017

    I know that my dad has cancer at its pancreas since ten months. If I think back, these last ten months have been an emotional roller-coaster. In the beginning, the doctors did not…

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  • Experiences

    Why I don’t care about sharks and love kitesurfing

    / March 30, 2017

    Often in my life, I started something new with a specific objective in my mind. But then so many times while attending a workshop or doing a new work, the initial objective seemed…

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