Jonathans Hope- a book

Yes, reading is still on the list these days and thank god, also those who still write new books. 

Hans M. Hirschi is one of them. He already wrote a couple of books and like with so many other authors you may not have heard about him yet. But you will after this post and you will also read one or two of his books for sure. He wrote non fiction first but then and now is also writing fiction, novels and one of his novels is- Jonathans Hope-. 

I finally had the chance and time to read this book and here is what I think....

A story about a young boy, abandoned from his own parents and next to dead when he sees a light in the beginning of the afternoon, while searching for a place to survive another night in the wood. 

What a dramatic start and this goes on. You'll read about heartbreak and pain, about love and being lost and about finding the right words. 

What makes this reading interesting is that the characters are allowed to grow and they get near your heart so fast, that it can hurt. 

The story has no waste in its way of telling and goes fort but even the view is not only to see from the main characters. The writer give us the gift to also see the world through the eyes of the others character without making the story stop or going slow. 

There is even a long loving making of those two main characters which is written in a way that it does not feel weird or painful. It even is not written like in a cliché.

And there are ups and downs in what the life of these people in the book are going through. 

Drama at is best I would say and just with this book H.M. Hirschi is for sure the queen of drama writing. 

Thought drama tend to not being realistic and that's another surprise while reading the book. It all feels very realistic, even the twist, the change in storyline and how the characters act. 

Thought in the last chapters the author put in a little sparkle, glitter and then some more speed into the story which otherwise seems to be already finished. This could maybe feel for some a bit strange and out of the way as the way the author writes changes too a bit but then, you get drawn to the story again so fast that you don't realise how you suddently could stand at the end of the line. 

You will have your tears, your laughters and your heart beating faster. 

The whole story is very intense, thought it is just a small book, but weights heavy. Sometimes it is hard to even read and this is not because of the style of writing, it is the story going on. Containing a couple of tabus we are not used to talk or read about.

You also will get one or two moments thinking about your own vision you have on people and how much we use to just touch the surface. 

Jonathans Hope by Hans M Hirschi is a book I can recommend but must warn that it is not an easy going story, or just a love story with a bit of drama. It is powerful, intens, captivating and will touch you inside and maybe trigger one or two memories you choose to hide. It is a book well written and at the end gives you hope for the fact that there is always a way to get through, if not for each of us, but for some. The ghost of the past will always last, but we can always smile, even when it is with a crying eye. You'll do this after you have read this book. 

Love & Light

Home is where the heart is?

The other day a friend of mine posted something about how language can change your feeling of beeing home in a language. 

Most of us are used to one, two or max. three different languages. Most will also just speak one perfect as it is the mother language. Some will also achieve a higher level in the second language and therefore most have no problems to identify with the mother language as their very own. 

But then there are people who learn more then three, they learn four, five, six or even much more different languages and all more or lesson good. Some can actually speak most of those learned very well. 

But people learn also there is a price for learning more. 

You lose your mother language. Even more, when you travel a lot and more when you also work in another language. The common sence makes it necessary in many ways to use another language as the main language to speak with. 

When you then come back where you are from you change your point of view you have from the place you're from. It's the adventure you have started. A lesson in seeing things different as with each language you learn, you think also different. 

Science has not long ago found out that this is actually the case, that language is not only culture it defines your way of thinking. 

Another common experience for people speaking more than in one main language is they also think in those other languages and when they speak in their mother language they sometimes know the right worth in all the other languages but their own mother language. 

So feeling home on the place you are coming from is something which becomes lesser. Everytime you return to your old home you say goodbye to it. More and more it does not matter where you live. You are no longer home in the language and therefore the palce you stay can be anywhere. 

Each time you learn more about the new and old places, you learn about you something new and each time you do, you get away from what was important and what did indeed define your personality. The focus on what is important change and the place you will feel home is literally the place where your heart is and this means also for most of those, of us, who travel much, who speak different languages, that it gets harder to find a place to settle down as this is not an option for us like the common human. We have harder to imagine staying in one place all our life. We don't see the need for that and we need the chance to grow as you learn that growing is part of your vision of life. If you feel not home in a language you can't settle down ever again. If you think and dream in different langauges, you maybe start with having two hearts beating in your chest and then the places you are, become places you just simple are. 

Seeing all those possibilities, all those chances, all those things to learn and see and touch makes you the adventure under your friends and with time you discover that the most important friends you collect around you have become the same. 

Another thing is, you will never be really part of a group like the common people know it. You can get inside but will be always outside in the same time. Different languages makes you see from the inside and the outside to your self, your situation. You have easier to leave, but decision are all but easy to make. You know better what you want but always have to ask you more and exactly. You take the harder way, as you need to come through, thought you take the easy going way at the end, as you know things can get only better and nothing is forever. 

So after all, yes speaking more languages can give you much for your personality but you will lose the feeling of feeling home in one and also feeling home on only one place and vene find the place to feel home.  You will be richer in every way but you will also leave the save place of being sure how to talk proper all the time. You simple lose the ability to know, to remember each word you've learned once. It is simple impossible to speak all in the same time. 

Life will be different and the challenges maybe bigger, but you will discover beauty, wher others never will see one or even catch the chance to se it. 

Love & Light

The Epic- music

We all like to discover new music and see if it was or is worth our time and to listen to.

Going through the stores and catching the covers and hoping this might be something good.

The thrill of searching for something special. The joy if you found music you like from the first moment and even more if it is not one song.

The thrill to just buy something without knowing if it is really that good and to see your hopes fulfill. 

This music I am now writing about for you is Jazz.

Jazz is not everyones cup of tea, but this is not the usual Jazz.

It's not that unerving easy listening music and not classic Jazz alone, or even called so. It's not techno Jazz or modern Jazz, even thougt many have no idea what modern Jazz is. It's like with those modern art/ paintings. It is actually old art now but was modern that time when it came out.

The Epic is from Kamasi Washington. Actually it came out last year in May but this work is one of those albums who need time to climb up and be heard.

One reason is for sure that it is not a simple CD or LP- no, there are three of them! In one package.

You get already now the idea that this could mean it is something good to try.

And indeed this work of art is very much worth your time.

To the background. Kamasi got the inspiration from a story of a book about a warrior who stands and protects the gate until someone comes to take his place. The fight is to win or die.

Epic story and so is this music.

It starts smood and relaxed but getting deeper and using the classic elements of Jazz.

Then later like the story the music turns up, gets harder and more colorful. A mix of Jazz, Funk and Swing comes alonge and makes you fly deeper into the ocean of this story of music.

Then it gets lighter, softer again to cherish the wind being low before the storm comes, and like in an opera, the chorus of singers start to impress and take you with a big hand to leave you somwhere where soul is to be heard and then you land after the explosion of feelings soft with your feets and it is like waking up from a dream.

Sounds unbelievable, but The Epic is as the name suggest.

The music has a story, has a message and its way.

It is indeed and outstanding Jazz work of art.

Something I can absolutely recommend.

So enjoy this peace of art. 

LOVE & LIGHT

What now my love?

In the last weeks my country shakes. 

Refugees are coming and the nazis are on the rise again. 

Fire is burning and people are clapping hands with smile in their face. 

People who just arrived after a very long and painful journey get welcome like shit and not even the police is doing something again it. Even worse the police claim it's the refugees foult. 

But to be true. Europe is shaking. The fascist minds are on the rise everywhere. 

We stand on the age of a big change in life and history and what do people do and politic? They refuse to see, to act to take in. Thought all should know better that all this happening now is a result of the last years politic and habbits of the western world. It is even the result of not telling the whole truth after world war- the second. 

The warnings have been in the 90'tis and in the beginning of the year 2000. But why listen as it all seemed so far away and our life did not change to the bad. 

Now we are in a crisis. Thought they call it a refugee crisis, it is not. It's a crisis of politic and our point of view. Our expectations and the world we made up. This world is crashing down and of course as we never really cope with the possibility that this could happen, we stand with no real idea how to deal with this challange. And it is a challenge we all have to get through, no matter if we want it or not. 

But far to many still refuse to see the facts and the logic that just 2- 3 mill. people are changing their place. Europe has over 500mill people and declare itself out of order. What a mess! What have we done or better not done all the years that we say so?

Frightening it is but our focus should be on what is possible, what we want and what future we are going to create. It is actually a big chance now. 

Sadly the politic still likes the old way, the way of fear. Even massmedia is most focused on fear.

But back from big politic to the politic in your own country. What can we do? Stand up and go on the streets. Yes. Talk about it and use facts. Yes. Make the massmedia do focus on the lies and use facts and also to help people open their minds that extrem parties are not the choice of the hour. Instead we should choose to follow the heart. 

Sounds as you heard it once and it sounds like an idiot is telling you while being blind and will tell you only love, love, love is the answer, but you have the feeling that this never function..? 

Oh it is that simple with love but so hard to live up to. So what more can we do? 

Some help the refugees who are arriving from the sea. Some help them on the way to Europe. Some help them when they are here, waiting for a future to start for real. Some spend clothes and money and some give out food and work as a connecting part in communication between the new world and those who entered it. 

But others fear that Islam will destroy Europe. Some say the African will treat our women badly. They say Köln showed it but the truth is of all those who have been found from the police, of all the many, many mans, just 3 have been from outside Germany. Some claim they are among us and prepare for another attac and so they say that most of the refugees are criminal, thought the highest rates of criminals is among the far right wing and their sympathisants. 

Yes, it is time to talk crystal clear and not deny the problems and mistake we have and made. Yes, criminals are always to find. And yes they will come more refugees as we do not do anything to stop the wars in other countries and I mean also the war of money. 

But those who can read- know that. Like me. Question is, how to reach those who don't, who fall victime for the fascist mind? How do you reach someone who has fear without having a real reason? How do we wake them up if they don't believe in masspress (which I can understand..)? How can we lead them to open thier minds for facts and reasons and what they can do? How can we make them believe in politic, when they don't trust them but the far right? Even thought they are telling lies more then all the others. 

I have the feeling that blocking the demonstration of fascist is not enough. Making jokes about them is not enough and on the other hand, most will not understand those. 

I am sure there is not one way to deal with this situation and I have a hunch that we all must do a bit more then we are doing now. If we don't want history to repeat, it is up to us, the common people. Not waiting for the politic to see, we must tell them and already this crisis is managed most by those who do it for free. On one hand this is very hopeful, on the other it makes me having bad feelings as those who are the reason for the crisis can still say they do enough, they don't need to, they have time. 

But how to tell them and all those silent people that time is up. There is no time anymore! What we do now and decide now is our future. How do you want your future? Backwards or forward? 

To vote is still important but also to tell them damn politics that they have to work for the people again and stop working for the lobby. 

How clear must the situation be that those people see? And how crystal clear must it be that all those silent people stand up? 

I'm not saying no one does. Grateful we can be that there are in fact people waking up and going on the streets and shout out- Stop. It's time for worldpeace, love and respect. It's time to fulfill the change which our grandfathers and mothers started. It's time for true equality and a new way of living together. But it is also time to stand up in your family. Discussion are needed and feeding each other with facts. Searching for ways to be with each other without fear and hate. 

But it is still not enough! We need more. Make the brainstorming with friends and find ways to call out for the right direction. Think outside the box again to find what we can do to get this crisis in a good and happy future. We need to. Old ways are out of question now. Find new ways. Find new hope and find yourself. 

Tell others what you found out and what your ideas are, because many have the same feeling. 

THERE MUST BE MORE. THERE MUST BE SOMETHING STRONGER. 

These days, I am thinking about that. Trying to figure out something better, stronger. Outside the box. Let's help each other in this. 

LOVE & LIGHT