The coming Sunday, 18th June is Father’s Day. Let me take the opportunity of this special day to share with you a touching memory of a son as he remembered his father. He called his father “Jack”, but his name is C.S. Lewis, the creator of Narnia. Jack was a man who lived what he …
It has been ten days since Tim Keller passed away, his books helped and still helping me a lot. I have read The Reason For God and Walking with God Through Pain and Suffering a long time ago, now I am reading his Counterfeit Gods. His writing is challenging and most importantly, liberating and life-saving.Some …
This children’s music book contains 5 places in the Palace of Versailles, each place is assigned to a music piece around 17th century. There are little white buttons to press to make the music play. Little words in French combine with the illustrations, they reflect what music for which occasion. The musical life in Versailles …
The coffee grinder was fine: as soon as you rotated the crank, it played ” May makes everything new… “. But, oh wonder – it played it in two voices!How is that possible? Can you explain it? Die Kaffeemühle war in Ordnung : Sobald man die Kurbel drehte, spielte sie “Alles neu macht der Mai …
Since I’ve read The Story of the Root Children by Sibylle von Olfers, every year in February, I would imagine the root children are sewing new clothes for the flowers. The meadow doesn’t look like much happened, but the root children are preparing the most beautiful spring costumes for it. This book is one of …
From my tears burstMany full-blown flowers,And my sighs becomeA nightingale chorus … A poem by Heinrich HeinePg. 299 The Magician by Colm Toibin When the book get to the part, where my favourite song is mentioned. I have to put aside the book and immerse myself in the music. By the way, can someone tell …
Work harder, climb the career ladder, you will rule, be rich, famous, powerful, therefore more “freedom”. Is the true “freedom” really coming from this? Or we have become the slave to false promises? Usually, people with more power and wealth is trapped in fear. Many disasters happened out of this fear. Generally I ask, why …
My good night story tonight is a story about Big Hat. I met Big Hat in the book Krabat by Otfried Preußler. The time I met him, I was at the beginning of being a self-employed musician from an employed musician. It was not an easy decision to make, everything would be very complicated. Like …
Happy birthday to you,Happy birthday to you,Happy birthday to Fra-anz (ritardando and take a deep breath)Happy birthday to you! Today is Franz Schubert’s birthday (31.1.1797) and a few days ago was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s birthday (27.1.1756). The two very short and brilliant lives, like comets. Schubert died at the age of 31, Mozart died at …
No, they’re not my reading plan for year 2023. But they will be my brilliant friends for this year! Part 1Theme: Russia and Ukraine ReadThese 4 books are to help me understand Russia and Ukraine. A Classical literature (Dostoevsky), also contemporary literature of a Russian author (Ulitskaya), from a migrant perspective (Wodin) and from a …