Inspired by this text at the “photo challenge” I immediately thought about by parents who died some years ago. The first picture symbolises my father’s creative skills. He was very shy due to things he had gone through and expressed himself in creative ways and in my childhood I just knew he could make and fix anything.

My father’s fish pond

My father at his green house in the 1980s

My father’s fish pond

The other picture reminds me of my mother’s dream that we could graduate

to be able to study at a university which she couldn’t do because of the war.

My parents and my twin brother and I on our graduation day in June 1970