I lost my heart again last night. He stood,just a few feet in front of me,dressed in black,plucked his guitar and said, rather than sang in a voice that left no woman doubting that this was a real man; “Take the ribbon from your hair” Kris Kristofferson,the All American Rebel,sang at the Zürich Summer Festival,”Live [...]
Were you around in 1968? I was, and it is one of the few things that make life today tolerable. The fact that I lived through the years that moved history. 40 years ago today on the 3rd of May 1968,students of the Sorbonne University in Paris occupied the building.It was the beginning of events [...]
Monika Schmid is head of the Catholic Community in the town that I live. A Woman. It is difficult to find enough Catholic Priests these days in a country where half the population is Catholic. Maybe people can’t believe in the preachings of the Catholic Church any more. In a five minute TV programme which [...]
Amsterdam, 23 February 1944 “From my favourite spot on the floor I look up at the blue sky and the bare Chestnut tree on whose branches little raindrops shine,appearing like silver,and at the seagulls and other birds as they glide on the wind. As long as this exists I thought and I may live to [...]
On the eleventh day of November 1918, at the eleventh hour, the Armistice Treaty that ended the the first World War was signed. They hoped it would be the last. It wasn’t. Next Sunday we will remember those who took part and died in the wars of the last century,and the soldiers who are still [...]
“For the Fallen” “They shall not grow old,as we who are left grow old, Age will not weary them,or the years comdemn. At the going down of the sun,and in the morning, We will remember them.” Laurence Binyon .1914 These words were engraved on a wooden plaque fixed to a wall of the Aula in [...]
The words of this poem are for me the lovliest words of affection ever written.It is by no means any ordinary poem,it was chosen as a cypher for one of the bravest and highly decorated British women agents working in occupied France during World War II.Her name was VioletteSzabo, and she died in Ravensbruck concentration [...]
