My mother is a spry lady with more than 40 years of professional experience as a maths teacher. She is not frightened, knows how to get her way, is clever and pragmatic. We had already celebrated her 70th birthday. She told me what it means to reach that age and how values, perception, horizons and also the body are changing.Read More »
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The six dead soldiers from the bus stop
All my school holidays I spent in a tiny village at the Czech-German border. In this village three houses were occupied all year round and three only during the summer holidays. But in the three houses occupied all year round, lived 10 children. A little Bullerby. There was never any lack of playmates. The rest of village were ruins. Before the Second World War the village consisted of 36 houses, one school house and one guesthouse, in the surroundings were four mills. Read More »
Good deed
I had a long flight behind me. Next to me sat a man of about my age. We did not know each other but we got along well from the start and had a good conversation. At one point I was so tired that I fell asleep. Suddenly I felt a light touch, which woke me. He had covered me because my small blanket had slipped on the ground. His touch was more accidentally than intended. Read More »
Procession of the black Madonna and plum tree
My friend Tamara told me that her mother has only half a year to live. Her lungs only work 20% and she is facing death by suffocation. No one can help her. Tamara told me all the things, she still wants to do with her mother but she is running out of time. They will not manage to do everything. My head is still spinning from her last sentence: “Why did not we start to do all those things 10 years ago, when she was still full of energy?”Read More »
Communication
My mother wants to be informed on what her grandchildren and I are doing. Almost everything is of importance and of interest. I call her twice a week in order to find out how she is, whether the plants are growing and to report on what is going on in our lives.Read More »
Orienteering race
My mother had her 70th birthday. When my father asked her, whether she has a special wish where to go for her birthday dinner, she defiantly replied that she does not want to go for dinner but would like to have an orienteering race. I once gave her a forest orienteering run for her name day during the summer holidays. Back then, she was 36 years old, it was summer and warm.Read More »
Michaela Merz 