Halloween in Bern

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The sky is gray, the temperature is cool, and in the morning there is a white mist over the fields. According to the State Meteorological Institute, the Alpine region is in the sphere of influence of a large-scale low pressure area over the central Mediterranean region. Humid and increasingly unstable stratified air flows over the country with a weak southeasterly current. Wet and cool, snow fell in the mountains, mid-May, and autumn has come to Switzerland.

The mind may know how grateful we should be to the farmers and the soil for this bad weather. But rains must be fought not with the spirit, but with the heart. Who can resist melancholy, who is not afraid of lengthening shadows, dark nights, heavy dreams and depression?

Yes, this year autumn is already in May. How does the people know? Leaves are falling from the trees, a dog is barking. The world is quiet and waiting for the October blues. It brings fog, frost and, after four dreary years, the next federal election.

By candlelight and pumpkin soup, you can take a thoughtful look at the past legislature. Anguish and distrust spread when one thinks of the spring fever that many years ago, one might say in another century, spread across the country from the newly elected parliament. More ecology, more women, more youth! Those were happy days, invigorating and ephemeral, like any drunkenness!

The pandemic swept the country, and as soon as it ended somewhat, with an emphasis on “a little”, the war came in the neighborhood, in Europe, in Ukraine. But when it gets colder, Switzerland sticks to tried-and-true recipes, tried-and-true wardrobes. Instead of ecology, now again the economy. jointly₂The people and the cantons rejected the law in June 2021, and the sovereign also had to postpone the protection of water and ice floes until better times. Instead of saving nature and climate, we saved the coast.

When the winds shake the fatherland, everyone on deck and sails has to reef, including women. Now they are allowed to work and serve prosperity until the age of sixty-five. And everyone who complained about low wages on that election Sunday was driven out of laziness by an increase in VAT.

Autumn has come, and if you don’t have a house now, as Rainer Maria Rilke knew, you won’t build one again. Even an apartment is hard to find and even harder to pay. But the dark season also makes you think about your own mistakes. Perhaps we would have preferred the More Affordable Apartments initiative to be approved. But then, at the end of 2019, times were different. We were greener, more feminine and younger, but basically still liberal and full of confidence in the market. Personal responsibility, growth and productivity, that’s what our songs were about back then. How incomprehensible when it becomes cold and dark, but you want to rejoice in the warmth and solidarity of the community.

It is true that the first poet of this state, Gottfried Keller, wrote in our family book almost one hundred and eighty years ago: In autumn the country lies naked / And breaks through the dense fog / A pale ray from the edge of the forest / You see the moon, not I

Visibility is really bad.

And this smart man knew even more: There is no city on earth / There is no village that is silent / There is no old graveyard / In it lies the martyr of freedom!

The Secretary of State, our first woman in Brussels, also learned from this and saved herself from a useless victim last week. Who can blame her if she is now looking for a warmer place. She will pack the tents, finish the familiarization negotiations and crawl for the well-deserved stove. This decision is quite reasonable. You are not going to put yourself in danger. This is not the right smell to lead a lost expedition to Brussels, Europe. In addition, the rope team is a quarreling bunch and poorly equipped, sometimes even giving the impression that the Federal Council drank wine long before the summit. There is no agreement on either the destination or the itinerary. Orientation seems completely lost. Strong storms, negotiations are still ahead. And like the winds between the isobars, every breath of European politics between union wage protection and right-wing sovereignty neuroses falls to the ground. It is difficult to expect a reliable majority, which is so necessary for a democracy. First, it would be necessary to formulate a common interest, and this is politically harmful, especially for candidates, especially in the autumn election campaign.

Instead, Halloween is just around the corner, that’s how it feels, ghosts all around, scary clowns with their wands and horns. They demand sweets from the frightened townspeople, otherwise it will be sour!

But let’s not despair, but climb into the cellar and eat jam! From syrup, from jam and jam! About neutrality and relations with Russians and Chinese! Storage is not useful, but nourishes the stomach and soul. Let’s forget about the vegan menu for a day and slaughter the glorious piglet, don’t plunge into despondency, because the next warm winter is coming and certainly the next dry season. Our thoughts go out to the brothers and sisters in the landslide areas, we pray for the permafrost and hope for early snow this year for the benefit of everyone and the tourism industry!

Source: Blick