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Pierre Minik

  • “When I die”-joke

    March 2nd, 2022

    When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

    Jack Handey

  • Lost Connections: Book quote

    February 9th, 2022

    “You aren’t a machine with broken parts. You are an animal whose needs are not being met.”

    Johann Hari, in Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – And the Unexpected Solutions.

    I didn’t plan to listen to an audiobook about depression. I just heard Johann Hari in Joe Rogan’s podcast and thought his clarity was refreshing.

    Depression has been a part of my life several times and this book felt like it was satisfyingly tying together a lot of unconnected thoughts about depression. Thoughts I’ve had on antidepressants. Thoughts I’ve had about our society. Thoughts about life.

    There was so many parts of the book that spoke to me. That quote in particular I heard while I was biking around outside of Copenhagen. I had to stop and re-hear it several time.

  • Drunk poem

    February 9th, 2022
    the sun
    shows up
    but not
    just yet
    
    the taste
    of tequila
    is still
    on my lip
    
    my conscience
    will falter
    for some things
    I can’t alter
    
    I try
    to pick a fight
    
    have I
    done
    anything
    right?
    
    I took
    too long
    and the ride
    is gone
    
    please
    just please
    pick up
    the phone
    
    
  • Reminder for myself

    December 31st, 2021

    We tend to view body and mind as separate things. They aren’t. Your mind is as much a part of your body as your organs, arms and head.

    It’s important to be diligent about maintaining a good rhythm for oneself.

    Here’s a byte-sized talk extracted from Andrew Huberman talks about helpful morning routines.

  • Slow is

    December 31st, 2021

    Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.

    U.S. Navy Seals
  • Nature and you

    December 24th, 2021

    On Planet Earth nature discovers you.

  • Crooked bread

    November 28th, 2021

    I think people who say: “Two wrongs doesn’t make a right”, aren’t people who tend to cut bread very crookedly.

  • The past

    October 4th, 2021

    “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”

    L.P. Hartley
  • Sins and punishment

    October 2nd, 2021

    “We are punished by our sins, not for them.”

    Elbert Hubbard
  • Robbing yourself

    September 14th, 2021

    Life is the only thing you can rob from yourself.

    – @PierreMinik (but most likely said before)

  • Dusk view in Nuuk

    August 10th, 2021

    Photo taken from my kitchen at dusk.

  • Night-time photography

    August 1st, 2021
  • too far

    August 1st, 2021
    i know the way i hurt you
    but i can’t comprehend
    why i let me
    
    i’m afraid to know
    how you feel seeing me again
    so i dare not look back
    to see if you’re there
    
    i know it’s not for me to wish
    but i wish i’d see you smile
    so i’ll know you weren’t
    consumed by my doing
    
    and while i wish
    i wish i’d see you see me
    so i could let my silent remorse
    be said that i know i took it too far
  • Think quietly

    July 20th, 2021
    Think quietly
    
    Dance patiently
    Look softly
    Build slowly
    Hug readily
    
    Ask
    Choose
    Care 
    Rebel forbiddenly
    
    Love loudly
    
    Count the thoughts you don’t have
    
    @PierreMinik
  • The Destination

    July 4th, 2021

    I love the road to there, but not getting to there.

    @PierreMinik

  • An Arctic Sunset-rise

    June 25th, 2021

    Greenland’s National Day is the day of summer solstice, when our daylight is at its longest. The midnight sun barely hits the horisont before it turns upwards again.

    This is a picture taken from my bedroom, a few hours after the sun kissed the horisont. It’ll be another month before we have nautical twilight.

  • Behind the Scenes: Streaming concert

    June 11th, 2021

    The 4th of June there was a live online concert streamed simultaneously from Nuuk (Greenland), Reykjavík (Iceland) and Tórshavn (Faroe Islands).

    The Remains of the Commonwealth is a musical abstraction of the Danish Commonwealth where the three members of the group are playing live from the three geographical locations of Nuuk, Greenland, Reykjavik, Iceland and Torshavn in the Faroe Islands. Live performance combined with streaming.

    Excerpt from the Livestream on Youtube

    The performing artists were Miké Thomsen (GL), Jesper Pedersen (IS) and Heðin Ziska Davidsen (FO).

    I assisted the streaming from Nuuk. Here’s some behind the scenes photos.

    Here’s a short part of the performance. The rest of the performance can be viewed on Youtube.

    Miké on a native drum during livestream concert. On the screen below is Heðin on the left and Jesper on the right.
  • Pride in Nuuk

    June 11th, 2021

    The Rainbow flag proudly waving in the subtle breeze of a summer-ish day in Nuuk, Greenland.

  • 29… +8 years

    May 19th, 2021

    8 years ago I celebrated my 29th birthday. This was an important mark for me for several reasons.

    All throughout my late teenage and early twenties I didn’t expect to live to be more than 25. I had undiagnosed schizophrenia and was struggling with depression.

    Mid-twenties it turned out, to my surprise, I would survive. I got my diagnosis and began crawling out from the pit I was in. But I still didn’t believe I’d live to be 30.

    In the following years I realised I needed daily content in my life, something to do and something to wake up to. I moved home from abroad, got a job and went snowboarding again which was one of the few things I had longed for during my years of darkness.

    The year I turned 29 I started my second entrepreneurial project and times got lighter and even exciting, not the least because I met the wonderful woman I fell head-over-heels in love with and today is my awesome girlfriend. It was the year I realised death was not a certainty for the following years.

    Today, 8 years later my reality is completely different. From time-to-time my disease still demands much from me but I’ve become more comfortable with it.

    However, I’ve recently had a frightening revelations but it haven’t been about an impending death; it’s about my impending life.

    I’ve tried resisting growing up for as long as I recall and I’ve comfortably thought I wouldn’t amount to anything and wouldn’t have many opportunities coming my way. Suddenly my mortality has struck me. Somehow thinking I only had a few years left to live was much less overwhelming than realising I could still have much time to live but also that there’s actually a limit I’ll hit someday. Pondering about not being able to live forever, I feel an urge to figure out what I want to do within the time I have, and what I want to be, and what dent I want to put in the universe.

    All this uncertainty, scarcity in knowing I’m mortal and the opportunities before me stirs an uneasy feeling in my chest. It’s adventurous and seductive and at the same time it’s scary.

    For now, I’m just happy that I can celebrate my 29th+8 birthday. Happy Birthday to me.

    ❤️ Pierre

  • The levitating monk

    April 25th, 2021

    “Prince Gautama, who had become Buddha, saw one of his followers meditating under a tree at the edge of the Ganges River. Upon inquiring why he was meditating, his follower stated he was attempting to become so enlightened he could cross the river unaided. Buddha gave him a few pennies and said: “Why don’t you seek passage with that boatman. It is much easier.”

    Buddhist joke
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