God said, “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” Ta-boom, ta-boom-boom-boom-boom-boom-boom. Eliot said, “It is never too late to be what you might have been . . .” Rat-a-tat-tat, rat-a-tat-tat-tat. Picasso said, “Every child is an artist. The problem is How to remain an artist once he grows up . . .” Tat-a-rat-tat-tat, tat-a-rat-tat. Mozart […]
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ALL THINGS END all things end ipso facto before they end dum spiro spero they wind down de facto it’s the winding down status quo that breaks my heart kyrie eleison things begin and end carpe noctem it’s the in-between that smarts terra incognita especially the far end of in-between eheu, fugaces labuntur anni when
Oberlehrer Jan Arnošt Hančka. Headmaster and Cantor in Purschwitz. *11.9.1867 – †17.6.1928 Translated from Upper Sorbian by Gerald Stone on 11 October 2017 at the request of the Wendish Research Exchange. -0- Arnošt Hančka was born on 11 September 1867 in Guttau, where his father had a farm. His childhood years and the conditions in
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Raj in 1928, shortly before the author’s death. It was translated from Upper Sorbian by Gerald Stone in 2017 at the request of the Wendish Research Exchange. -0- As I write these lines, I have no intention of making out that I may have been something special. No, but I want my young readers to
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So what happens to the old house now? Now that it’s been re-occupied by a young couple Who love its oldness? The one now gone used to move about the house With such energy That the windows would rattle. They still rattle. The new owners’ dog Wouldn’t go into the living room. “It’s OK,” the
This article by Trudla Malinkowa (Gertrud Mahling) first appeared in Rozhlad, Lětnik 64, Fall 2014, pgs. 16-22 and then, with Peter Barker and Weldon Mersiovsky, and an introduction by David Zersen, in the Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, Volume 88, Number 3, Fall 2015, pg. 59-72. The Introduction is from the Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly. Introduction European
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Jan Kilian und die Auswanderung der sorbischen Lutheraner / Jan Kilian and the Emigration of the Sorbian Lutherans, written by Trudla Malinkowa (Gertrud Mahling) and translated by Jay Cram first appeared in: Eduard Ludwig Nollau Mission und Migration im 19. Jahrhundert. Eine Spurensuche / Eduard Ludwig Nollau: Searching for Traces of Migration and Mission in
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