Author: eklastic

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A Visual Echo

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There is this little old house in our street. A couple of years ago it was renovated and the traditional half-timbered upper story was offset by the deep berry coloured groundfloor walls.

A quote from the Book of Proverbs from the Old Testament is written between two wooden beams:

Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established. (Solomon - Proverbs: 24:3)
Which in the German translation seems more appropriate for an actual house:
Through wisdom a house is built, through wit (or sense) it is kept.

And then I saw this house – in a town about 10 km away:

The same colour scheme, the same quotation, the same font.

But which one is an echo of the other?

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Echo.

Love Actually

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“Llove is the absence of judgement."
Elke's llama

Whether it’s old love,

or cold love,

even fast love,

any kind of love,

as long as it is more love!

Travel with Intent – have a look at other posts inspired by the llama quote.

Living it

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I had lived in South Africa for a couple of years when I went back home to visit my mother and walking about our old town with its medieval towers and the baroque castle and the 1000-year- old castle ruin on the hill I suddenly realised that in Johannesburg the oldest building I could come across was barely 50 years old. Whereas in my old home history seemed to stare at me from every corner, my new home seemed devoid of it.

Which is of course, the wrong definition of history. I saw the height of the fight against apartheid, I saw the end of this terrible system (even helped in the tiniest amount – I served tea to a few of the protagonists). I lived through history. Today, this is history. So much so that a statue of one of the heroes of the time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, stands surrounded by gravestones and garden ornaments in the lot of a stonemason in a little town in the Odenwald and is instantly recognised.

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: History.