Thursday January 30 The Year of the Wooden Horse

Written by Jack van Ommen on January 30th, 2014

 

 

chúc mừng năm mới 

To all my Asian friends. This will be a good year. For me for certain. Wood was my business, my boat, my home. The Trojan Horse was wood and the idea of Odysseus, the seafarer who had to be tied to the (wooden) mast to avoid being seduced by the Mediterranean Sirens. I should have been better aware on that fateful date last November 16. A lesson learned for what lies ahead in the year of the Wooden Horse.

The first day of the new year is also a Black Moon. New Moon twice in one month. I was searching the late afternoon skies for a photograph but could not find the sliver left of the old moon.

Yesterday I visited Willemijn Petroff-van Gurp. She is the last “alive” survivor of the 200 odd women of the AGFA-Kommando of which our mother was a part of. At 95 she acts like she is my age. I had met her for the first time last April at the annual Dachau commemoration. She will live forever as an inspiration to many.

 

 

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