Work has got me in its grips... Whether it's sitting alone in my office in front of the computer, working on the website, sorting books and files with the others at BEHALA, meeting collegues to figure out how to best build the digital archive, or going for a lunch or coffee break and even then have great chats and get new ideas and hints for projects. In the evenings I'm either a couch potatoe or going out to even more meetings. Like yesterday, when I was invited to join the senior members' boat cruise on the Spree. And chatted with all those collegues I haven't seen for almost two years, since my last project finished. Great to shake hands and hug so many friends! And whilst cruising Berlin into the night!
Work kept me from going to Düseldorf to celebrate my father's birthday. He was 85 on the 8th. Hopefully I can make it next year.
I called, of course, sent a greeting card and asked Cathy to get a huge bouquet of flowers for him. No birthday present yet, we will sort that out with his wife Uschi later.
His best birthday present ever, he once told me, that will never be topped, was when he was 23. That was in 1945, Germany had to surrender, and the war came to an end. Even though he was taken prisoner of war in France, and only managed to escape years later, it was still the best that could have happened to him, he said. Peace is the most wonderful present, for sure, and we should cherish it a lot more.
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