The flowering knows no end… Now all must change.Das Blühen will nicht enden.… Nun muss sich Alles, Alles wenden. Faith in Spring// FrühlingsglaubeJohann Ludwig Uhland I was away for a couple of days. When I came home, I discovered many new baby flowers have come out. Immediately, Schubert’s song – Faith in Spring played in …
Have you ever heard about “A coffin for two”? As I read about “A coffin for two” from the book A Matter of Death and Life by Irvin D. Yalom and Marilyn Yalom, I was smiling. In fact, it made me smile whole day.And what is the fully lived life looks like for Irvin could …
On a blogpost in November last year, I’ve written:I do not know what exactly has begun or what has come to an end in order to create space for a new beginning, but it is certainly a new beginning with hope.https://thejourney-writing.com/2022/11/a-new-beginning-where-it-all-began.html It was on 29.11.2022, the 1st Advent. Today, when I am organising my pictures, …
Between the years, I am reading the book The Journey to the River Sea. I am now at chapter two, and I am almost highlighting every sentence in the book. Some of them are really good messages, they come to me on time before new year. Maia, an orphan, Londoner, must travel to Amazon River …
Gifts have their meaning,where a life cannot exist on its own,by its own efforts or its own strength.And so we need the hand of others, the giving hand,and our giving hand is always needed. Once a year we practice the art of givingwith a light hand and a thoughtful heart,so that the other person will …
Tonight is the longest night of the year. What a perfect timing that the light bulb arrived today, so that I can have enough light! A book that inspired me afresh every time I read it is The Little Donkey/ Ein Esel geht nach Bethlehem by Gerda Marie Scheidl, Bernadette Watts. Its central thinking is …
If Harvey wakes up on Christmas morning and doesn’t see his Christmas present, he might be wondering why. I guess the good boy Harvey will of course understand that Father Christmas can be forgetful, the reindeers could be exhausted and not feeling well. And many reasonable reasons why the present is not in the stocking. …
December is a stressful month, to calm myself down, I am folding stars. These are only 2 of many variations of star that I have made. Other than working and folding star, I am also preparing Christmas presents for German families and friends. I was in a bookshop looking for a book called “The ultimately …
This morning, I woke up to a question, a question asked by my song writer colleague at dining table last week. “Don’t you want to write a song?”“Yes, after the song writing workshops, it’s getting serious now, to write a song.”“I’m very glad to hear this!” I mentioned about the idea of writing song come …
My Advent calendar just told me the most beautiful love story in the world. This morning, my faith in love has been restored. The story is … My hikes through the Bergisch have become shorter, but more enjoyable. I love the high-altitude paths with their benches at the edge of the forest, from which you …