On the 1st of August 2022, I set up the crowdfunding website for “The Journey”, so that people who like my content can support me and be part of “The Journey”. 3 months has passed, I’m spoiled by you all, from all the coffee and the kind words I’ve received. For every cup of coffee …
Month: October 2022
Title: You Call That Brave? (EN) Mutig, Mutig (DE)Author: Lorenz Pauli and Kathrin Schärer(A book borrowed from a friend.) A mouse, a frog, a snail, and a sparrow decide to find out who is the bravest among them. To prove his bravery, the mouse wanted to swim a long distance without coming out from the …
The poems collected here were written by a urbanite for urbanites. He tried to reflect. Because one can lose contemplation, but one must find it again.Die hier gesammelten Gedichte schrieb ein Großstädter für Großstädter. Er versuchte sich zu besinnen. Denn man kann die Besinnung verlieren, aber man muss sie wiederfinden. Preface – The 13 MonthsVorwort …
light on/upon somethingUK /laɪt/ US /laɪt/to find or think of something unexpectedly:We lighted upon the solution entirely by accident.From https://dictionary.cambridge.org/ Finally, my kitchen lamp is lighting again since months. In summer, the sun was still shining at 9pm. But recently, I used torchlight when I am in the kitchen. I thought I can fix it …
This is what I see when I am travelling to the place where I have my organ lesson. Each time I come back from my lesson, I deeply feel that life is just too short for all the organ pieces I want to learn. I appreciate my every organ lesson to get honest and constructive …
This little fallen leaf that I met in Cologne was carrying a song. A song that I once heard in a beautiful concert in Cologne and the season in the song is autumn. To be precise, it is an autumn dawn, the protagonist is feeling lonely, even lonelier than last year. Suddenly, a leaf has …
轂交蹄劘，人来人往，爱常驻。Busy railway, people come and go, love remains.Vielbefahrene Zugstrecke, Menschen kommen und gehen, die Liebe bleibt. 15.10.2022 Cologne PS Donate a cup of coffee? 😉 https://ko-fi.com/thejourneywriter
Today, I start reading “Water Music” by T.C. Boyle. A fiction between 1795 and 1805, about the adventure of the Scottish explorer Mungo Park. The review written by Salman Rushdie about this book is very interesting: “It is a book in the worst possible taste, serves no useful purpose … Its title will make Handel …
Could I complain? Could I be apprehensive?Could I lose faith in you and in myself?No, I already bear your heavenhere within my heart. Im Abendrot (1825) D799Lappe/ Schubert I do not have many words to type for this post. In front of this gorgeous sunset and this splendid song, everything looks dull, including the words. …
The apple of someone’s eye. The person who someone loves most and is very proud of. From: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/ Wie seinen Augapfel hüten. ⟨jmd. Hütet etw., jmdn. Wie seinen Augapfel⟩ meist bezogen auf etwas besonders Kostbares, Wertvolles mit großer Sorgfalt, Achtsamkeit behandeln, behüten, bewachen, um Schaden oder v erlust zu verhindern. Aus: https://www.dwds.de/ Before the apple …