Can you Write Following a Plan?

From now on till the end of December I will carry on an experiment.
Since May 2009 I am a member at Squidoo. I’ve successfully graduated at RocketMoms (writing one lens a week for eight weeks). Instead of taking a break after that adventure I have thrown myself into the next one: I am going for [...]

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About me

I know I should rewrite my “About me” page. But I want to offer you something different if you are interested in knowing more about me: Some weeks ago I wrote a Squidoo lens about my top ten favorite activities, and I think that special lens will tell you a lot about me. Maybe the [...]

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Joyful Jubilant Learning celebrates its 3rd birthday

I must admit: When I visited Joyful Jubilant Learning for the first time, I had my difficulties with the name. Learning – yes. Joyful – yes. But jubilant? I associated “jubilant” with a choir singing Handel’s “Halleluja”, not with learning. “They are exaggerating a bit, those Americans” I thought (would you please forgive me, my [...]

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Leaves in All Colors

Here in Berlin October has been a rather dreary month up to now.  There has not been much of a “Golden October”. In the years before we had a symphony of red, yellow, green. This year September was just great – and then with the beginning of October weather changed to almost wintertime.
But there is [...]

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Autumn

“If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It’s a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it’s time to reflect on [...]

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Three blog posts which made me think

Do you know this? You are plodding through your feed reader. You click on a blog post and you scan it. Then, you read it again, each word, each sentence.
Today I want to introduce to some of those blog posts.

What If? A Birthday Prose Poem. This prose poem is a gift for anyone who [...]

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Feed your Soul!

Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.
~The Koran
This quotation caught my eye because

it shows how poetic the Koran can be. Often we associate the Koran with the oppression of women, with a medieval way of doing justice or with violence against the “Infidels”. “Flowers feed also the soul” – when [...]

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Rocketmom Graduate

No photo today and no quotation this time–I hope you are not too disappointed.
But on Monday, October 12th I was informed that I belong to the number of RocketMoms who successfully finished session #3. I am a RocketMom graduate now.
It could be that some of you are now shrugging their shoulders or shaking their heads. [...]

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Art and Garden

“Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.”
Sir Walter Scott, (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), Scottish historical novelist
In my opinion, the Chinese Garden in Berlin-Marzahn is a perfect child of art. If we equate art with beauty–the Chinese Garden is art, because it is beautiful with its small teahouses and pavilions. [...]

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A Planet without Flowers?

Dahlias. Photo: Ulla Hennig
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have
such things about us.
~Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat
This is so true!

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