Posted in Seasons, Thoughts on Life, tagged blue, color, hyacinth, New Year on November 30, 2008 | 10 Comments »
The hyacinth is a flower which we associate with spring. And we are in the beginning of winter – so it’s a bit out of place, you will think. But
did you know that hyacinths are associated with rebirth? We are 31 days away from 2009, from a New Year, and the time before the New [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 24, 2008 | 15 Comments »
The old house watched the building activities. All over the years, since the end of the World War II, it had been alone.
It still remembered the good old times, when its cellars were full of exquisite wine bottles, and its rooms filled with the noise of people running around, being busy. People in fine clothes, [...]
Posted in Berlin, Seasons, tagged Berlin, snow, Winter on November 23, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Yesterday, winter came to Berlin with a strong wind and snow showers.
This is the street where I live, Wilhelmstraße. All the houses here have been built in the years 1960 and later. Before World War II, this was a street with a lot of government buildings. After Word War II this street was a street [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 17, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Cell Phone, originally uploaded by JonJon2k8.
They look cute and pretty, don’t they? But sometimes you could just snatch them from your neighbor and throw them out of the window.
I went to a public reading a few days ago. The room was packed, and a quite famous actor sat down, opened his book and began to [...]
Posted in Thoughts on Life, tagged abbey, focusing, monks, Zen on November 13, 2008 | 7 Comments »
This is a photo of the Bavarian Abbey Benediktbeuern. What do monks have to do with the Art of Zen?
Maybe you know the old rule for the monks: “Pray and Work” or “Ora et Labora” in Latin. They either worked or prayed. They had to work in order to make a living, but that’s only [...]
Posted in Thoughts on Life, tagged Church, Churchtower on November 7, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Looking at this building you may think it is a tower of some city hall or some part of a fortified building.
Actually it is a church tower. It doesn’t look like one, does it?
Well, how often do we deduce wrong things from the way things or persons look. One of my girl friends who always [...]
Posted in Thoughts on Life, tagged Beach, experiment, poem, Sea on November 3, 2008 | 12 Comments »
When there was a heavy load on my shoulders,
I went to the beach
where I listened to the sweet noise of the water
coming in, coming in.
And I turned my eyes on the waves
watching the endless silver surface
And I took a deep breath
of the salty air
and I felt good.
This is an experiment – my first poem in [...]
