Sunday afternoon, I had coffee and cake with my neighbour in her garden. On the table, there was a garden calendar. A calendar to give you garden tips every day, other than that, poetry and folk wisdoms related to garden. Today, the calendar mention about the change from winter time to summer time. As I …
Month: March 2022
The first week with my Spinet recalls me the days when my sister just born. First thing to do after wake up was to visit her bed and play with her. After school, my first thought was to go home to play with her. I felt responsible for her, observed how my mother take care …
Today whole day long, this beautiful music J.S. Bach’s “Concerto for Two Violins in D minor” (BWV1043) is haunting me. The music I played with two violinists at a funeral. This funeral was special, not sad, rather encouraging. The old lady that passed away written a note, told us that she thanks God for the …
Es war ein König in Thule: Das Hausbuch der Sagen und BalladenIllustrator: Renate SeeligA friend recommended and lent this book to me. An beautiful illustration book that contain the most famous German ballads. Ballad is a song or poem that tells a story (Cambridge Dictionary). Traditionally, ballad is folk song/ story, later, great author like …
Finally, I’ve found my Spinet! I am very tired, this post is a quick update to remember this historical day in my life. The idea of have a real instrument occurred at the end of January, I went for an instrument hunting journey at the end of February and today my Spinet come to its …
BlackbirdHappiness is waken up by blackbird singing at dawn. The singing was so fascinating beautiful, I could not otherwise, but just listen to it for nearly an hour.MeetingsAfter the blackbird concert, I needed to attend 2 meetings on this morning and I needed 3 big cups of coffee to keep me concentrate. The very last …
So klingt Schubert (DE) Author: Emilie ColletIllustrator: Severine CordierThis book is my prize at a lucky draw activity on 11.12.2021 The structure of the book is based on the most famous six melodies of Schubert. To each melody, there is one lovely picture, 1-2 little sentences and a button to click on for music. That’s …
Buch Suleika Author: Johann Wolfgang Goethe / Marianne WillemerBook bought from the book store in Pergamon Museum Berlin Inspired by a Persian poet Hafez / Hafis (1325-1389), Goethe written 12 books of poem called West-Eastern Divan. Book of Suleika in one of the twelve. At time he was writing the poems, he exchanged letters with …
How quickly do things change? Last week at this time, I was in a concert in Berlin that I experienced profound peace by listening to J.S. Bach Cantata BWV 82 I am content. It is about Simeon was content after he has seen Jesus, he could depart the world peacefully and delightfully (Luke 2:22-35). Next …
Spring in Jade Pavilion (EN)Frühling im Jadehaus (DE) 玉楼春 (CH) Book bought from the book store in Pergamon Museum Berlin More than 200 Chinese classical poetry between B.C. 200 to 1279 is collected in this little book. Because Ruan Ji (210-263) is my favourite poet and my favourite poem “夜中不能寐yè zhōng bù néng mèi” of …