How do I say what I mean here? Southern California is like Heaven.. and Brachwitz is a tiny muddy, from all the rain.. village. In California the skies are always an unblemished blue.. or so it use to be. It’s now always dotted with these very strange configurations, that just are not clouds. Watching it […]
Boo Boo
It seems to me there’s so much coming to mind, I will never get to Boo Boo, but I have to, because he is another one of these angels with no wings who saved my life. Thus I will ignore all and everything that’s pressuring me to talk about it, I will skip all and […]
Greatest Memories
I can’t wait to talk about my good memories, yes.. I have those.They are not just about my freckles which I had lots of.. but about some human kindness that made them special.. language differences and difficulties had to do with my freckles becoming a very beautiful thing. How come? Because that’s what “Boo-Boo ” […]
Life Savers
Tante Hanni.. there you are, finally ! Your packages were the Best. There even was chocolate in them.. real real chocolate. We once got our hands on a piece of this silver paper chooclate is packaged in.. and we handed it in class from person to person. The uuuhs and ahhhhs could be heard outside […]
Tante Hanni and Boo Bo
Aunt Hanni was the other angel with no wings who helped save our lives. Because without food.. well you know, you die. Mom would sit at the table crying and saying: “Sorry kids, there’s no food..” This was no shock for us , it was totally normal. I once ran into the fields to find […]
Aunt Hanni
The other angel with no wings was aunt Hanni. She was blessed enough to have landed in the American sector of Germany.. while we were under Communism, speak: under Russian rule. This meant.. more suffering and more hunger. During the end of WW2 the Big One as Archie Bunker would later call it.. The American […]