During my Easter visit to Potsdam, I met I., a young mother and sales manager from Odesa in Ukraine. Her husband is a sailor who was in Turkey when the war broke out. He was able to fly from there to Germany. I. and her young daughter had to flee...
Do you know Beethoven’s ‹Immortal Beloved›? Beethoven dedicated all his music from a certain point in time to an ‹immortal lover›. To this day people are divided as to who she may have been, and the way in which people are pondering about it says everything about this power of...
When visiting another country, I show my appreciation for ‹foreign› people and their culture by trying to thank, greet, and say goodbye to them in their language. I accept one part of the other, the unfamiliar, appreciatively into myself. Giving thanks creates a bridge from myself to the other. This...
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