Author: eklastic
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Playing for the Ashes
is probably more fun than sitting in the ashes like Cinderella.
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Meditation Does It for Some
Mielies, piesangs en appeltjies – these are a few of my favourite things!
And if I can’t have them I’m going to meditate on them.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Connects you to the present moment
Life Is Not Safe
This is part of the Memorial for the victims of violence, war and persecution in Weinheim. It is considered one of only a few counter memorials in Germany opposing war monumenta. I find the war memorial on the opposite end of the street, which dates from the 1930s, very martial and in the style of the Nazi era with three soldiers in winter uniforms more like then modern day soldiers than ww I soldiers. The names of the fallen soldiers of the town from world war II were added in the 1950s.
The counter memorial was erected in 1999 and includes a statement explaining about the victims and a star of David. The group of people on the thin beam above the memorial seems without a foothold and permanently in danger of falling – illustrating the precariousness of life, particularly life in a totalitarian state.
FOWC with Fandango: Precarious
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It Meanders no more
The Upper Rhine Valley is up to 35 km wide, from East to West. The river Rhine used to meander leisurely in this plain from Basel in the South to above Mainz in the North. In the early part of the 19th century Johann Tulla started with straightening the Rhine making it possible for larger ships to transport goods up and down the river. The cut off “arms” became recreational areas, some for boating and swimming etc., some have become preserved areas for fauna and flora.
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