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The Seahorse and the Moon
When I was 7 years old, some people landed on the moon. At the time, I was fascinated by spaceflight. However, we had gone to a place on the countryside for summer holidays and there was no TV there. I...
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Icy Stream – River Elbe in Winter
On river Elbe, ice was drifting, sheets of floating ice. The sun was cutting through the haze, the drifting seagulls casting shadows, and the crows. Crystals of hoarfrost where coating the willow...
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Bark
Shards of those sunken And darkened days of my past, Lost days that have vanished, Like old bark, fragmented By fresh, younger growth, Sometimes, all of a sudden, I find such a fragment Like a dancing...
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Before words
There seem to be certain emotions that are characteristic of childhood. I remember feeling certain ways and I notice that these feelings have become sparse. It seems to me that there where experiences...
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Home metallurgy
My father was a teacher of material science in a professional school, teaching young people learning some metalworking profession. So as a child, I learnt already something about heat treatment of...
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Lan Naya – One of my favorite tunes from the 1980s
Listen to this: This tune, performed by the famous Bembeya Jazz National, was one of my favorites during my university time and it still is. I used to listen to it a lot in those days. In one of the...
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The Old Swede
During the ice ages, this rock was transported to what would later become the Hamburg area. When the Elbtunnel, an autobahn tunnel crossing the river, was extended by a fourth tube a couple of years...
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The lost Voice
If only I had a recording of those sounds! The old garden gate always made a very special sound when it closed, a soft clicking sound. No other thing made this sound. Like a human, the house had a...
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Friday Music Bag
Reblogged from Zvembira: Dear folks, It's another Friday and an excuse to share with you some nice mbira stuff that we've found online. We hope the week has been great and that preparations for the...
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Ways and Views
Looking back at the way I have come so far in my life, I see that, in some respects, my way has been unusual. But probably many people have a very unique life. However, at least some events and...
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The Playground
Heavy rain was pouring down. The sky was dark gray. I was standing at my kitchen window, looking down into the playground behind the house. The water was running down the slightly sloped way, into the...
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Icy Stream – River Elbe in Winter
Originally posted on The Asifoscope:On river Elbe, ice was drifting, sheets of floating ice. The sun was cutting through the haze, the drifting seagulls casting shadows, and the crows. Crystals of...
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The Stuff of Childhood
Sitting on a bench in Schröders Park above river Elbe, I am watching the dancing spots of sunlight on the ground. Downhill, the waves of the river are gliding against the beach. Suddenly a window to my...
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Class Reunion
End of June, I attended a class reunion. We are having such meetings about once in five years, but this time, we did it just two and a half years after the last one. When I compare this meeting to the...
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Phase Transitions 1
Originally posted on The Kellerdoscope:This is the first of a new series of posts that will show abstract photographs made by Svend Keller during the 1970s or 1980s (I don’t know exactly). I hope you...
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Piazza del Paradiso
The room had a simple tiled floor. I don’t remember if the ceiling was wooden with open beams or with stucco. There was a chair, a table, a bed, a wardrobe, all made from wood, in simple style, and...
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Home metallurgy
My father was a teacher of material science in a professional school, teaching young people learning some metalworking profession. So as a child, I learnt already something about heat treatment of...
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Eurydice and Orpheus
Originally posted on The Asifoscope:It is not true that Eurydice had to return because Orpheus looked back. It was the other way around… Eurydice: I will remain here; I cannot come any further with...
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Reading Stories
Originally posted on The Kellerdoscope: “Oma-Ebersdorf ließt vor und Svend lauscht…” (Grandma Ebersdorf is reading to him and Svend is listening…) How much is in these three little dots… Rolf Keller’s...
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