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At Christmas time, there are certain baked goods that are decorated with sugar crystals: Doughmen, which we call Grättimänner or Grittibänzen in dialect, and Drei-Königs-Kuchen. Because the sugar is sprinkled on the dough before it is baked in the oven, there is a different amount on each pastry. But there is always some on top. It's part of it, both visually and flavour-wise. If you can't see the sugar, something is missing. As if the product is imperfect or flawed or not the real thing. And yet it is nothing more than decoration. We are good at noticing when something is missing, especially when it comes to familiar things. It doesn't even have to be very visible - we have a sensorium for it. Sometimes we also notice that our mind is missing something - but this is often drowned out by distraction, diversion, consumption and other things. But the emptiness remains. Do you allow it and pursue it until you find the real thing?
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