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 …
Year: 2022
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 …
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 …
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 …