another thought about the transitoriness or the stillstand of life

Die Tütenfrau (the bag woman) I discovered 1983? on a warm summer evening when I came from Eis Henning which is a cheap place to buy bad ice-cream. She has a little trolley that she pushes around with her, one of this shopping bag- trolleys that seem to make her life a little easier and meanwhile is an icon of the flexible human being of the 90th. When I saw her the first time, she was dressed warmly like for deep cold and almost hidden in a camouflage colored parka and strong warm boots, a cappy and sunglasses. She was surrounded by her light blue plastic bags that she had built her little home with in the entrance of a jewelry boutique on the upper end of Ku'damm, the former center of Berlin-west. When I saw her the first association was a saying that I heard very often during my childhood: what's good for the cold is also good for the heat. This woman never talks to you but when you ask her something she says "hau ab Du blöde Socke". I think she is still living in some corner on the Ku'damm, still surrounded by her blue rubbish bags, her little house were she keeps all her clothing and things. She doesn't seem to get older and always when you see her you think: She still exists, dwelling in her arrangement of bright blue rubbish bags filled with a transportable home to be installed between the chic boutiques of Ku'damm.