Lisa a guest blogger with the blog name “Redhead Reflections” has taken the huge job to write blog posts on each verse in the 150 Psalms of the Old Testament. Some of her posts will appear here at my “Devotional Friday Event” where you are welcome to participate too. Thank you Lisa for this post on being at God´s trashing floor. If you […]
A tweet from a fellow blogger inspired me to this post on a father’s love. The page is called “BeautyBeyondBones” and the post is the title of a movie called “Little Orphan Annie”. https://mobile.twitter.com/AnaRevealed/status/685357665359380480?p=p As a child I longed for a secure relationship with my father who suffered from sleep deprivation and nervousness causing him to become addictive […]
When I was five or six years old I dreamed of having a little sister and a baby doll in a cradle. I made a cradle out of a garden chair and many years later I bought a similar chair and found my two baby dolls from my childhood. One doll is “new”. I pingback to “Writing and Photography” who hosts […]
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 8,600 times in 2015. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it. Click […]
I have updated this post originally published December 30, 2014 We didn’t have television until the beginning of the sixties. One day my parents and my twin brother and I were watching something. Suddenly Montgomery is seen in his open car coming slowly through a street in Copenhagen with four British soldiers on motorbikes at each side of the […]
Link to original article from B.B.C. on Why Finnish babies sleep in a cardboard box? For 75 years, Finland’s expectant mothers have been given a box by the state. It’s like a starter kit of clothes, sheets and toys that can even be used as a bed. And some say it helped Finland make one of the world’s lowest […]
Old fashioned and modern at the same time
The Christmas seal was a Danish invention. In 1903 postmaster Einar Holboell expressed the idea that all packages could be supplied with Christmas seals, and the profit dedicated to giving sick children renewed hope. The world´s first Christmas seal was published on December 13th, 1904- the motif was a portrait of Queen Louise
How do you manage life when your husband has disappeared and your two toddlers have died of malnutrition and infections?
This is the first post of a serial of five posts based on Elfriide’s life story as deported from Estonia to Siberia and back to Estonia. Number Two, Three, Four and the post scriptum. We have friends with a dramatic background in their ancestry story. Our friend Kristjan comes from Sweden and his father Herbert escaped the Germans and the Russians by fleeing from Estonia […]
From one Heart to Another 