#PoetryDay- 159

February 6, 2025

When Memories Awaken

Am I positive
Or do I only think I am?

#PoetryDay – 142

August 22, 2024

Relief

After the storm, they say
The sun shines again
After the rain
The air’s clean, I claim

Daily Kind Quote – 5152

August 21, 2024

With Karla’s permission!

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In Love and Light

#JustAThought … New Beginnings

August 5, 2024

After we lost our cat and thought of getting a new one, I thought a lot about beginnings and endings and how different people look at them. Some feel guilty about starting something new after something ended. I often observed this in relationships. My mother-in-law felt guilty about enjoying life after her husband died. She spent 23 years in depression that she caused by her conviction that she does not deserve to be happy and has to grieve for the rest of her life. She thought it was not ok to feel or show joy. That’s why on the one hand, she complained about being lonely but on the other hand, hid in her house, avoiding any company. I totally understand the shock, the missing, and all the struggles that go along with such a loss. It all needs time, and people should take their individual time. What I mean here is that some think they must bury themselves in sadness as an unwritten law.

Please, Don’t Ignore Your Intuition! – Excerpt from a Journey of Awareness

July 22, 2024

Before I come to the point of what I want to tell you today, I have to share a pre-story to convey the core of the message. The long intro is not the subject but is necessary to share to take you where I want to get. What is also special about this post? While working on it, I went through quite a few stages of understanding, and when I finished it, I was at peace with what happened and filled with endless gratitude for the love we have been granted to experience life and ourselves in so many deep ways. So, I don’t mean that you feel sorry for me because I am fine now. I know all is well and in perfect order.

#JustAThought… The Healing Power of Grief

September 19, 2022

When I asked what to write for today, this topic came to my mind. I am not an expert on grief at all, but just someone who got confronted with it in different ways. So whatever I write here is not psychological expertise but only my thoughts on it, plus what seems to come through while writing. Please keep this in mind while reading.

#JustAThought … Memories

July 12, 2021

Why is it that beautiful memories can make us melancholic or even sad? Looking at photos of past events takes us back to that time and makes us feel what we felt at the time. The feelings may have been beautiful, but in retrospect, they can turn into the opposite although nothing has changed in the past. It is the present that makes all this appear in a different light.

Goodbye, my buddies…

August 14, 2016

When I sit on my bench from now on

It will never be the same

The enclosure that I look at

Will never be filled again

Whether summer or winter

I was there to care and to clean

For two furry buddies

For their comfort and well-being

The Visitor

March 9, 2016

Sitting lonely in my room
Looking out the window
Staring at the darkening sky
Not knowing where to go to

Pondering ‘bout shattered dreams
Of feeling such a pain
Of never gotten any chance
To finally win my game

Trip to the Big Apple!

August 10, 2014

In July my husband, my two older kids, and I spent 2 weeks in the United States. We spent time in New York City, went to Alex Grey’s Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, took a few days for visiting our friends and former home in the Buffalo area, and took the chance to see Boston again after 15 years.

We had a great time and I want to share it through some pics with you! I start with our trip to Manhattan where our vacation began!

The most touching moment for me was visiting Ground Zero. We went to that place 15 years ago, when my son was 3 months old. We took pictures with him within the WTC. 2 years later it came to the catastrophe. Seeing the memorial made me sad but also spreads hope and power that every breakdown leads to a new rise – when we only stick together and change our point of view! Let’s take every crisis as a chance of evolution!

Ground Zero today!

9/11 Memorial – Platform of the former North Tower. The names of the victims are engraved around both platforms.

Platform of the former South Tower!

The new one: One World Trade Center (as they call it)

It is even taller than the former Twin Towers. Amazing architecture!

I truly hope, that mankind will learn soon, that you can only achieve something when you use the weapons which correspond to the result. War can never bring peace but activates hatred and more fighting! We have to send out peace in order to calm everything down. We have to be tolerant in order to get respect. We have to be empathetic in order to be understood and accepted the way everybody is. We can make this world to our heaven. We’d only have to behave like it!

In Love and Light!

Enjoy Life! – My latest poem book

May 13, 2014

Here we go again! I am very happy to announce that my latest poem book is now available online!

Enjoy Life! is a collection of 24 English poems referring to a variety of situations we might face during our lives. The poems show that we all have to deal with similar topics – some wanted and some unwanted. But also in the unwanted things we can always find a door out of the struggle or pain into a world not being discovered without the challenge.

Enjoy Life! is available at Amazon as an ebook and you can download it on your Kindle.

Take a look and Enjoy!