My heart is like an apple-treeWhose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;Mein Herz ist wie ein ApfelbaumMit Ästen hangend von Früchten schwer.Christina Rossetti Now is the prime time to pick apples. Everywhere I go, I see apple-laden branches. As the apple season begins, I already baked cinnamon apple muffins. While I am writing this, I …
Month: October 2022
Time goes by shivering.What seems over, begins. Fröstelnd geht die Zeit spazieren.Was vorüber schien, beginnt. “October” from the cycle “The Thirteen Months”“Der Oktober” aus dem Zyklus “Die dreizehn Monate“Erich Kästner (1899 – 1974) I am moved by this beautiful poem – October by Erick Kästner. Time goes on, never stop, I too shall keep going. …
“Was it Frederick’s voice?Was it magic?”Frederickby Leo Lionni How to prepare for the coming cold winter is one of the main concerns now. This is not an ungrounded worry in European countries when we read the news. Companies, churches, private home are calculating about the room temperature for winter to ensure that Germany does not …