How can you come that close?

The dead, the sick were so far away. Many of them in cities I once worked in or studied at, when I was young. I knew the threat was real, and so I stayed home like most of us did.

Gone from the Future

 

 

When I was young, I looked at the older me

saw the vision of what I longed to become.

I could see myself dancing in the future

whirling along a path, that hadn’t been built yet.

Dreams and Wishes -Friday Fictioneers

I watched “Easy Rider” with all the other girls from boarding school. I sat in the old movie theater in the South of Germany, and my mind was made up.

Have you just forgotten to be Happy?

I follow so many bloggers who seem to be struggling with their own identity. “I feel lost,” that’s a statement I have read over and over. It always makes me wonder what happened to them. How can you get lost, if you are always there?

Hey, Universe!

Footprints on my soul

They walk through my dreams every night

Haunting, silent, an essence just beyond reach

Supplying all I need and yet supplying nothing

Meet the three sisters~!

I learned in school about Fate and didn’t really like what I heard. The Moirai or Fates were three goddesses, three sisters, who planned our life. Their names were Clotho, the one who spins the thread of life; Lachesis, she who draws the lots and determines how long one lives, by measuring the thread of life; and Atropos, the inevitable, she who chose how someone dies by cutting the thread of life with her shears. They were often described as being ugly and old women, stern and severe. Three days after a child was born, it was thought that the Moirai would visit the house to determine the child’s fate and life. The Moirai controlled the fates of both, morals and gods alike.

Be careful what you wish for~!

Yes of course, I tossed a coin in that damn fountain and made a wish. It was my first vacation alone. I had driven to Rome all by myself in the old, cancer eaten Beetle I had back then. I had studied Latin in school, had learned everything there is to know about the Roman Empire and the politics back then and now, for the first time, I was visiting the city of my dreams and walking the old roads that had made so much history. I was 18 years old and an adult, so they said.

Cheating Genie?

What is it with three wishes only? My first instinct was to ask for more wishes, but then I remember the Genie is an old, ancient bag of tricks and experience. So let me make my wishes more like this: