Friday, June 30, 2006
Experiencing Buchenwald Concentration Camp. I will not forget!!
The picture looks out across where the muster ground was to the depot (big building) and the disinfection station to the right of it.
"It was Sunday, yes, a beautiful Sunday in March. One life later, many lives and many deaths later, I stood there again in the dramatic empty space fo teh muster ground of Buchenwald. The birds had returned, the same wind blew over the Ettersberg. As I contemplated the landscape, I felt my whole life spreading out before me in memory, becoming transparent with its dangers, its misconceptions, the blindness of its ideological illusions, its stubborn striving for knowledge and clarity."
Jorge Semprun, speech held on the occasion of his receipt of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 1994. He was an inmate of Buchenwald from 1943-1945 and went on to be a politician and writer.
Jorge Semprun, speech held on the occasion of his receipt of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 1994. He was an inmate of Buchenwald from 1943-1945 and went on to be a politician and writer.
Monday, June 26, 2006
"Get me out of Deutschland NOW!"
Duderstadt
Friday, June 23, 2006
Think on this...
"Were it possible for us to see futher than our knowledge reaches, and yet a
little way beyond the outworks of our diving, perhaps we would endure our
sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are the moments
when something new has entered into us, something unknown; our feelings
grow mute in shy perpexity, everything in us withdraws, a stillness comes,
and the new, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it and is silent."
"And this is why it is so important to be lonely and attentive when one is
sad: because the apparently uneventful and stark moment at which our future
sets foot in us is so much closer to life than that other noisy and
fortuitous point of time at which it happens to us as if from outside."
Rainer Maria Rilke
little way beyond the outworks of our diving, perhaps we would endure our
sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are the moments
when something new has entered into us, something unknown; our feelings
grow mute in shy perpexity, everything in us withdraws, a stillness comes,
and the new, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it and is silent."
"And this is why it is so important to be lonely and attentive when one is
sad: because the apparently uneventful and stark moment at which our future
sets foot in us is so much closer to life than that other noisy and
fortuitous point of time at which it happens to us as if from outside."
Rainer Maria Rilke
Monday, June 19, 2006
Now this house is cool!
On the street where you live
Hi-ho, hi-ho! It's off to work we go???
Here's the Kaiserpfalz (palace of the Kaiser)
In case you were wondering if I really have been in Germany, HERE I AM!
Friday, June 16, 2006
Thursday, June 15, 2006
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