The Day the Heating went out

Such things always happen at the weekend. I awoke at 6.30 am because of a funny rippling noise. No, there was no fountain in my room. The noise came out of the heating, and as I noticed a few seconds later, the heating was cold.
Arggh! I tried the heating in the other rooms: one was [...]

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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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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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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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Amazing Color

For me this flower is a symbol of energy, of the joy of living. Just looking at it makes me feel very much alive.
I must admit that I miss the variety of color very much in winter. But even in Winter there is color – think about the colors of the candles, the colors inside [...]

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Pink Flowers

As the summer 2009 is slowly coming to an end, I walk around with my camera in my hand, trying to capture as many colorful moments as possible. Here it is the color “pink” which attracted my attention. I could also say “magenta”, but the German Telecom corporation has the ownership of this word in [...]

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A Piece of the Old City Wall in Tallinn

Tallinn is the capital city and the biggest city of Estonia. It was founded in the 12th century, and you can still see many medieaval buildings.
In 1219 the Danes conquered the city. After that it became known under the name of “Reval”. Tallinn has a long history – if you want to know it in [...]

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Trakai Castle

Trakai castle is the biggest architectural building of such a type in Lithuania. Trakai castle which was built on one of the islands of the lake Galve is today the most attended architectural sight of Lithuania. It was a residence of Lithuanian grand dukes.
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We had a guided tour through the castle – the [...]

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