Author: eklastic

Zu alt, um nur zu spielen. Zu jung, um ohne Wunsch zu sein.

Looking back and Looking ahead

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A curious look – but what’s the connection to my past and my future?

This valley in the Odenwald has been a favourite spot for family outings for almost 150 years. The deer come to the fences to be fed, then and now.

The young deer at the top might very well be the grandgrandgrandgrand… son of the deer my granddad was feeding in the photo on the left, taken in around 1962. The photo on the right is of our son and grandson standing in more or less the same location earlier this year. I haven’t been to that place in the intervening 60 years.

Friendly Friday: Look back to the future

Threes from a Trip

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Three yellow flowers (okay, one is hiding in the back).

Three bees working hard on a yellow sunflower.

The old station in the town of Hadamar in Hesse with three windows.

Three diamonds in the crest of the carnival club of Niederhadamar.

Thursday Trios

It’s also a small world

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This is my second installment for

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: It’s a Small World – I found this really small world on a my bike ride today. It seems to be part of a “planet ramble” (Planetenweg) with various planets displayed like this (Planetenweg). This is a representation of Neptune. A small, small world – only 57 times the size of our earth.

The A and O

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New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets.
Don’t forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.
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As a teacher who for the last six years has had the privilege to introduce learners to our old friends this is a quote that is dear to my heart. My primary aim as an alphabetisation teacher is to introduce our alphabet to people as a step to integration into our society. But it goes beyond the functional reading. In time at least some of them might use the letters as bridges to start reading for enjoyment rather than pure function.

It is only fitting then the school building where this takes palce is named after a a local author:

Adam Karillon wrote about the Odenwald and the people around him. He was well known in the early 20th century, being the first recipient of the Büchnerpreis in 1923. He was also a physican and travelled to Africa at a time when this was not an everyday occurence.

His final resting place is not far from the school, and his and his wife’s tomb is decorated with a poem with words honouring their life and love.

For more posts inspired by the quote go to Travel with Intent.