Tag: #Ragtag Daily Prompt

The Doctor Who Wouldn’t Leave the Children

Janusz Korczak was a doctor, a children’s author, an educator and the head of an orphanage near Warsaw in Poland. When the children were moved to the extermination camp Treblinka by the German SS he and his assistant Stefania Wilczyńska refused to leave them and went with them to their certain death.

This monument to his courage and humanity was erected in Günzburg, it was created by Itzchak Belfer who used to live in the orphanage for a while when he was little.

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Children

A Tale of Two Toys

Moritz and Max are an inseparable unit since they met each other on a day long hike through the mountains. Ever since they try to recreate this first magic encounter.

Last weekend the glorious sunshine beckoned them on another exploit.

Over hedge and ditch, over hill and dale, over rough and smooth they went.

Climbing high into the mountains.

And ending their day in the sparkling waters at the bottom of the valley.

Tired and happy after frolicking in the sand, they think of their next adventure together.

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Toys

I’m Getting too Old for this

I’ve been saying this for a few years now – and every time we have another weekend with our running friends we sign up – and I end up on the top bunk. And getting up is still comparatively easy, it’s the coming down in the morning that challenge.

I have to face it: that’s the situation in youth hostels. Before somebody asks: It was worth it, though!

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Atop