photo: Britta Hügel I wish You a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Don't lose courage - though this year we learned the hard way what beloved John Donne wrote in 1624:
'No Man is an Island'
No man is an island entire of itself; every manis a piece of the continent, a part of the main;if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europeis the less, as well as if a promontory were, aswell as any manner of thy friends or of thineown were; any man's death diminishes me,because I am involved in mankind.And therefore never send to know for whomthe bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
I do hope with all my heart that there is still a lot of time till that happens -
and that we enjoy our lives, feeling grateful among all our sorrows, grateful for being alive.
photo: Britta Hügel So: I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Britta XXX
Happy Christmas Britta. What a beautiful post.I got the vaccine for Corona yesterday. There is still hope.
ReplyDeleteDear Yael, thank you! I'm happy that you got the vaccine and am of course highly interested how you feel with it. I am glad that scientists were able to develop it in time.
DeleteThank you Britta anda very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too. There is always hope, without hope we have nothing xxxx
ReplyDeleteDear Rachel, thank you! True: without hope - and I would add 'without a goal' we are not very much. xxxx
DeleteChristmas greetings to you Britta and your family. Time is a great healer, and hopefully, sooner rather than later, we will all be able to look back at this moment in our history and see it as a turning point along the long, long road.
ReplyDeleteDear Rosemary, thank you! I think that this epidemic is really a big turning point - and though it is really awful, some insights might come (about balance in nature instead of robbing Mother Earth) that might bring something good too.
DeleteThank you Britta for such lovely sentiments, and Merry Christmas to you and your nearest and dearest.
ReplyDeleteDear Pipistrello, thank you! My wishes to your family - and though first I thought John Donne a bit heavy I decided that it is a very appropriate poem these days.
DeleteEvery man used to be a piece of the continent, but last night they made a deal... Happy Christmas Britta.
ReplyDeleteDear Tom, thank you! Yes, they managed a deal - and I hope they will be able to negotiate fair and reasonable.
DeleteOh yes. A thousand times yes. Merry Christmas.
ReplyDeleteDear Emma, thank you! I am glad you like the poem!
DeleteWishing you and yours a very Happy Christmas. With a few vaccines being distributed, 2021 is looking better. We live for better times and they will come in time.
ReplyDeleteDear Susan, thank you! The possibility to deliver vaccine in a big style (and to all countries) gives hope. And I believe that times are getting better.
DeleteThank you Britta, and thank you for the little faerie.
ReplyDeleteDear Joanne, thank you! The fairy I photographed still in Hamburg - here in Berlin they decorated the shop windows of the KaDeWe in a very un-Christmasly fashion -- not bad, but without any magic.
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