“Service in life, hope in death. All who follow the queen’s example and inspiration of trust and faith in God can with her say: ‘We will meet again.’”The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby She was a queen, but nowhere in her funeral is glorifying her great deeds. The Bible text, the hymn so well chosen …
When I have to play organ at short notice, I always can play the organ chorale prelude by J.S. Bach, an organ arrangement of the hymn “Who only lets dear God rule” (Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten) BWV 690. This piece is without pedal (Manualiter), so that I can play on almost every …
“I think it’s very important for artists to be open to contemporary music, because that’s how we can build music history. If we don’t do that, there would not have been Beethoven or Mozart. We have our time and we have to find our music, music that we hope will be sustainable, not just now …
I like the idea of take-away office. It’s not that I do this on purpose. For a variety of factors, sometimes it is just necessary. Home office is still very comfortable, I do not have to carry all the cables and electronic devices with me. I can make coffee and tea for me without considering …
My post in July was talking about my 3rd month of self-employed situation. This post is a follow up post. “Into the 3rd month of self-employed, at least for July and August I have enough work to cover the basic living cost.”Into the 5th month of self-employed and looking back what I’ve written here, and …
Visiting Rome for the second time. This time no Spanish Steps, nor Love Fountain, nor Vatican City, nor Colosseum but I keep thinking of the friends that once walked in Rome with me. At the same time, it is very nice that I made new friends from different corners of the world, there are more …
I am sending you lots of love from this ancient city. I am not sure if Banksy visited this city, but the girl with the balloon is originally his creation. The ice cream oh so delicious. Blackberry flavour! I met Elijah in the cathedral. See how the raven sent him food? Fresco (church wall paintings) …
I am travelling back time to 3 B.C. – 13th century? I need to do more homework about this city. Until I know more about it, then I will reveal the name of the city. Stay tuned! “Travel ten thousand miles and read ten thousand books.” “读万卷书, 行万里路” 出自董其昌《画禅室随笔——卷二》 Travelling is like reading a book. …
Even if this little melancholy book is not my cup of tea, still I think it is so well written that I finished reading it. I like how the author create the Parisian streets, the rain scene and most of all is how the author interprets Autumn. For me, autumn has never been a sad …
The two books of year 1955 are poetry collection of Baroque period and Romantic period. Just as Church Hymns and Art Songs are dear to me, so too these two books. I appreciate there is a section for women poet inside both of them. I found them in a public bookcase and adopted them. I …