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. …
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 …
Title: You Call That Brave? (EN) Mutig, Mutig (DE)Author: Lorenz Pauli and Kathrin Schärer(A book borrowed from a friend.) A mouse, a frog, a snail, and a sparrow decide to find out who is the bravest among them. To prove his bravery, the mouse wanted to swim a long distance without coming out from the …
Today, I start reading “Water Music” by T.C. Boyle. A fiction between 1795 and 1805, about the adventure of the Scottish explorer Mungo Park. The review written by Salman Rushdie about this book is very interesting: “It is a book in the worst possible taste, serves no useful purpose … Its title will make Handel …
“Was it Frederick’s voice?Was it magic?”Frederickby Leo Lionni How to prepare for the coming cold winter is one of the main concerns now. This is not an ungrounded worry in European countries when we read the news. Companies, churches, private home are calculating about the room temperature for winter to ensure that Germany does not …
“He (Salman Rushdie) sent us a text about love and art.” Case ScaglioneChief Conductor of the Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn David Philip Hefti’s Rhapsody for baritone and orchestra with a text by Sir Salman Rushdie is a music composition (25 minutes) commissioned by Wüttermbergische Kammerorchestra (WKO) Heilbronn. On 21.9.2022 was the world premiere in Harmonie Heilbronn …
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 …
Have you ever dreamed about candy meadow, marzipan castle, dolls kingdom, rose lake and a seashell carriage pulled by two golden-scaled dolphins? As for Marie, this was not a dream at all. No one believed her that she had given up to talk about this “dream”. At this moment, the “truth” (dream) knocked at her …
Two weeks after reading “Krabat” by Otfried Preußler, I was and still am completely immersed in the magical world of the story. So I went on to read two other books by the same author, they are “The Little Witch” and “The Wise Men of Schilda” . These books are inspiring in many ways, instead …