Olga is proud to announce our newest English-German writer, visionary and great believer in the curative powers of coffee, Hildegard von Bingen. Although her work focuses on marine biology and moisture as a complementary quality of air, she has now written us a sick note.

My beloved Olga,

You are definitely familiar with the work I’ve been publishing over the years so this sick note must come as a surprise to you. It got me. The flu got me so bad I CAN’T EVEN. My airways refuse to function properly, I perceive every sound as it’s white noise and my brain doesn’t coordinate with the limbs. Need I to say the medication is fucking with my liver and my entire body aches? 

Later this day I’ll go jogging and looking for porcini mushrooms in the forest, maybe the fresh air of mother nature will nurture my inflamed lungs. I’m not a strong believer of pills, I find them rather sniffy, maybe because of the advertising and drug promotion that’s been going on. Coffee, however, cures everything. With the proper hydration, physical activity and 17+ kg of lemon I’ll be on my feet in less than a week. 

I left the city last week with a mild headache but that rapidly amplified to a migraine on steroids during my 3 hours flight with screaming bambinos. Now I’m patient zero in Baden-Württemberg convincing myself that The Prodigy and a chamomile tea will cure me. Please excuse my ungeschickt sick note that’s out my style, I promise to  send you my soon-to-be published work on cosmology and HTML tags when I’ll be back on my feet. 

Don’t let the flu get the best of you!

Hugs and kisses, dots and dashes, sticks and stones,
Hildegard.