I went to Berlin recently to meet a friend for five days. Berlin is one of my favorite, favorite cities. Which is saying a lot…. Right next to it is a newer church. From the outside the chapel is unremarkable. Almost ugly, even. But when you enter it, the deep blue squares of light with their underlying pigments of color are glorious.
The colors seem to move and change as you watch: ruby red, emerald green and yellow. Europe is in the middle of a heat wave. Today is going to be the scorcher of the year — so far! Looking at this photo of blues helps. Click here for my author page to learn more about me and purchase my books. When Uwe and I first fell in love, it was springtime in Europe. Now this is the life! I remain in love with the way of life. But we joke that if the weather had been different I might not have been so quick to agree to stay.
Some years it snows here in April, too. I was excited to discover that Amiens contains one of the few labyrinths still in existence. Paris appeals to all of my senses. In 3 hours, we were in Paris. Click here for my author page to learn more about my books and me. My published books are fiction, and this blog serves as a good place to present excerpts. Potential readers of my books might want a sample of my writing and a glimpse of the human being behind the words.
Posting every other week is great writerly discipline. My topics bounce all over the place like gleeful ping pong balls. I occasionally write about historic events, too. Several are A. I quote my beloved Shakespeare with Egypt 2: Along the Nile. Holidays have been fun, from You Rang? My day job is as massage therapist, and sometimes I write about healing and medicine. Both are available at amazon. Thanks to all of you for visiting these pages. I wish everyone the happiest of holidays.
Milestone 2 is on the way!!! As we think about what we want to do and see, we realize neither of us have ever visited Chartres. Uwe and I go out of our way to see sacred places around the globe. Energies gather in some unlikely places. Sometimes I stand in famous spots and am disappointed, while a place less known for religion makes me feel the presence of the divine. It was built and the labyrinth was laid in the first decade of the 13 th century. The king in turn had been given the relic as a gift during a trip to Jerusalem.
