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 …
I am now slowly recovering from being sick (again). New sickness every month. This time is worse than all the sickness I had in this year. I could not eat anything, I just threw up as soon as I ate. To avoid fainting because of dehydration and energy deficiency, I wrote to my friend to …
I visit The Louvre for the 2nd time. Visiting this museum for the 2nd time, I was free from the stress to see the “Must See” artworks like Mona Lisa and The Winged Victory. This time I was searching for Dutch Artworks in the Room 844 – Paintings of North Europe. Why? Because Vincent van …
Stepping into the bookstore was like entering an enchanted book world that only exists in imagination. Every corner, each room, the staircase, the corridor are decorated with such careful detail. My most loved room was the reading place at the 2nd floor, by the window. Then I read about the late bookstore owner wanted to write a novel with his bookstore, if I was in his bookstore, I was part of his novel. That was the magic he used.
Versailles, French court culture, and the way the French constructed the public image of the ruler, became a model which all other European courts sought to follow … … Thomas HöpelThe Versailles Model I was so excited to see Versailles. I’ve heard a lot about it, from other palaces I have visited before, that Versailles …
I am very sorry if I have disappointed you, when I talk about Heidelberg without showing you the old bridge, the old castle and the old church. I love the Heidelberg old town, like the whole world does. People from all over the world cross the ocean for just a glimpse of Heidelberg and I …
Regensburg is not as exciting as antipasti, nor as splendid as main course, but it is like a cup of espresso after meal. It is perfectly calm, tasty and strong. I was charmed by its peaceful force at the first sight. After walking around in the glamour dazzling Paris for days, the serene Regensburg was …
For the purpose of his art was to console people, to say ‘something consoling like music’.And he found in Rembrandt the consolation he wished to offer others with his work. Peter HechtVincent van Gogh and Rembrandt (Pg. 62, 65) This is one of the most valuable epiphanies I’ve brought back from my Amsterdam trip in …