The coming Sunday, 18th June is Father’s Day. Let me take the opportunity of this special day to share with you a touching memory of a son as he remembered his father. He called his father “Jack”, but his name is C.S. Lewis, the creator of Narnia. Jack was a man who lived what he …
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 …
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.
Since I’ve read The Story of the Root Children by Sibylle von Olfers, every year in February, I would imagine the root children are sewing new clothes for the flowers. The meadow doesn’t look like much happened, but the root children are preparing the most beautiful spring costumes for it. This book is one of …
Work harder, climb the career ladder, you will rule, be rich, famous, powerful, therefore more freedom. Is the true freedom really coming from this? Or we have become the slave to false promises? Usually, people with more power and wealth is trapped in fear. Many disasters happened out of this fear. Generally I ask, why …
My good night story tonight is a story about Big Hat. I met Big Hat in the book Krabat by Otfried Preuler. The time I met him, I was at the beginning of being a self-employed musician from an employed musician. It was not an easy decision to make, everything would be very complicated. Like …
Happy birthday to you,Happy birthday to you,Happy birthday to Fra-anz (ritardando and take a deep breath)Happy birthday to you! Today is Franz Schuberts birthday (31.1.1797) and a few days ago was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts birthday (27.1.1756). The two very short and brilliant lives, like comets. Schubert died at the age of 31, Mozart died at …
Dismissal 1. the situation in which an employer officially makes someone leave their job 2. adecisionthat something or someone is notimportantand notworthconsideringhttps://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/dismissal and I was dismissed. It was the best thing that ever happened to me. Miss MintonThe Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson Seemingly defeated situation is the beginning of the …
Book 1: Ice Song (German Title) by Miriam KörnerQaqavii (English Title)An adventure story of a 15 years old Emmylou with the puppy Qaqavii in Churchill, Canada.Book 2: #LondonWhisper (only in German) by Aniela LeyA time travelling story to London in the year 1816. The 2 books are the books which the children (8-12 years old) …