Today is a day of celebration. Forget the pandemic and dance with joy – today is Easter! I was looking for an Easter graphic to use in a different publication when I came across this post from Easter Sunday 2015. A lot has changed in my life and in the world in the past five […]

This post first ran in 2016. Today seems like a good time to repeat it. I did add a word – ca o figure out which one? This is the in-between day. Yesterday was Good Friday. Tomorrow is Easter. Sorrow will be turned into laughter. Mourning into joy. They didn’t know that in 29 A.D. […]

It feels strange not to be going to church today. Meeting virtually, though necessary, won’t be the same. It is a day of hope mixed with sorrow. The joy of Easter was an unknown on that first Good Friday. Rather than provide a reflection on the day like I usually do, here’s a post from […]

  It is an iconic painting, Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper. You have probably seen it depicted hundreds of times. Today is Maundy Thursday, the day Christians remember the last meal Jesus had before his death, a seder meal as he celebrated Passover with his disciples. Leonardo’s painting celebrates that event, though I have always wondered […]

Saw this one “growing” near the abandoned quartz mine on the edge of Sulzburg. Every time you head into the Black Forest you’ll see something new.

I glanced at the calendar yesterday and realized today is my paternal Grandmother’s 127th birthday. Or would be if she hadn’t died just a couple months short of her century mark. My father’s birthday is this Friday, which is also the anniversary of his death. He went out on his 85th, and I think he […]

Hotels around the world are closed. The tourist industry is in a tailspin. But this insect hotel on the edge of Sulzburg is still open for business.

 

A friend sent this video to me. I can’t properly describe my reaction. Horror and amusement mixed maybe. But it does get across the essential of how to stay safe in this pandemic, so I figured why not share it.

Walking down the street Thursday, I came across this banner on a house around the corner. I was drawn to it because it is in English – and no-one in Sulzburg really speaks English. But I can’t figure out what the message is supposed to be. Are we being urged to leave no-one behind? Or […]