How long does it take to get back into the rhythm of your life after travelling? This time, it took me three weeks. I changed the light bulb, swept away the fallen leaves on the path, at last, my laundry mountain piles has gone, I know where the forks and knifes are placed again, bedsheet …
It has been three months since my last blog entry about W.A. Mozart’s life and opera and my trip to Würzburg at June 7, 2024. If you have not read it, here is the link:https://thejourney-writing.com/2024/06/w-a-mozarts-life-and-opera-my-wurzburg-diary-june-7-2024.html Summer was great, having roots (family) and wings (travelling and playing organ) at the same time is the kind of …
“Ich kann nicht anders – ich muß eine große opera oder gar keine schreiben.”“One thing is certain—I must compose a great opera or none.” W.A. Mozart an Leopold aus ParisAus dem Brief vom 31. Juli 1778 W.A. Mozart was a child prodigy, multi-talented musician and play several instruments. Fun fact, he rejected the opportunity to …
I seldom talk about negative things on my blog, it is really only wasting space. However, it does not mean I have not encountered rudeness, disrespectful and unfair treatment. Sometimes I even question myself what have I done to deserve this. I generally take these things in a very light hearted way because the negativity …
I’m back from the trip to friends’ wedding. The wedding was very inspiring, loves were flowing everywhere. The reason we gathered there was to celebrate the love between the newly-wed. Love is a decision and they made the decision in front of us, what a privilege to have witnessed that. Besides, I saw what mother …
“It sounded an excellent plan, no doubt, and very neatly and simply arranged; the only difficulty was, that she had not the smallest idea how to set about it … ” – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll This can explain my current situation. So many wonderful things planned for this year, and I have …
“Out there on the empty sea,Where only the moon appears,No sail has been seen to passIn four long and dreary years.” Imagine lighting the lamp for ships that never go past.Moominpappa at Sea by Tove Jansson What is the point to light the lamp at the lighthouse faithfully every evening when no ship needed it? …
On 14.2.2024 my organ arrived, a month later, on 13.3.2024 my visa until next year February arrived. Yesterday, I was busying talking to my dearest family and friends about this, finally I can plan oversea trips. The next thing to do is to earn enough to support all these wonderful trips. Summer Europe trip with …
“In the evening the dove returned and carried an olive leaf in its beak.” Bach’s St. Matthew Passion
“In the evening the dove returnedAnd carried an olive leaf in its beak.O beautiful time! O evening hour!We now make our peace with GodFor Jesus’s sufferings are ended.” From St. Matthew Passion no. 64 (an excerpt) In this short text of the recitative “Am Abend, da es kühle war” from J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, …
Have you ever had a beautiful dream and somehow lost it somewhere. Schubert’s Nacht und Träume is about bringing back this fair dream from above to us. If it is a beautiful dream, be courageous to dream again, and never let it go. Some dreams are messages from heaven about our purposes on earth. Only …