Do you know where butterflies go in the fall? The monarch butterflies are heading from Canada and the U.S. to Mexico right now for wintering. To be exact, they long to rest at their home – the oyamel trees in the Sierra Madre mountains. After making their 3,000-mile journey, they discover that their habitat in …
“How easily we forget – we in the business of storytelling – that life was the point all along.” – Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway With The Lincoln Highway, Amor Towles did what he preached in the art of storytelling. As though this book could read my mind, put my feelings into words, and understand …
“… most of my life I have found myself standing alone, fighting for my corner. Thankfully I have had the resilience and determination to stand by my beliefs, and now I also have Lance as my wingman, supporting me, as he promised when we got married.”– Ruth Shaw, Three Wee Bookshops at the End of …
“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? …
Time continues to play its organ diligently,Its little song sings to you every day,Mixed with sounds that are not cheerful,That no one wants to hear. The sounds continue. And as the years go byIt becomes a full singing society.It makes you go through the roof.You’d like to be somewhere else. Well, all right. You do …
Who were the guests staying in Hotel du Lac?“It seems to be permanently reserved for women. And for a certain kind of woman. Cast-off or abandoned, paid to stay away, or to do harmless womanly things, like spending money on clothes.” These were the hotel guests that the novelist Edith Hope spent time with in …
“At what point did one’s youth become part of history?” Peter Hunter, the Cambridge alumnus revisit his university and felt he belonged to the past. But have he and Eleanor grew up since they left Cambridge? One becomes a best seller author, another one becomes a TV celebrity, both are Cambridge graduates, beyond dazzling and …
Hollandsche Schouwburg in Amsterdam, October 1942. The Jews were locked up in Hollandsche Schouwburg until they were deported to concentration and extermination camps. Their children were sent to the nursery opposite the Hollandsche Schouwburg. In the nursery, a secret rescue operation was happening, this book describes the underground rescue network. Sadly, out of 10 children, …
What is Christmas to you? As for me, Christmas is when God left His paradise home. This picture is particularly vivid this Christmas after reading the book “Die Weisheit der Lilien” by Weifan Wang. A book that I encountered in a public bookcase not long ago. “When Adam left paradise, we human began to feelthe …
Today I accompanied 3 funerals on the organ. It was a very special day to accompany funeral on 19.12. Around 90% of the funerals that I played, bereaved families wish to have Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s “Von guten Mächten” (By Gracious Power) at the funeral. This poem is originally written for his fiancée Maria von Wedemeyer-Weller, in …