Tag: organ
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Retirement
Read More: RetirementFor My Descendants Living During The Year 2050 Moses had no computer. Yet the books of Moses have been written faultlessly, all the events within them seem to be in perfect chronological order, and Moses’ style of writing is to the point, succinct, and in places wonderfully poetic. Like Moses, I have no computer either.…
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boat, Canada, Christmas, church, emigration, family, God, organ, Rotterdam, school, ship, Vlagtwedde, Winschoten
The Emigration Leap
Read More: The Emigration LeapMom and Dad involved us older children in the deliberations about the future. We agreed that if we were to emigrate, it would not be Australia, New Zealand, South Africa or Brazil; the first two too far from Europe, the latter too different from us. The USA seemed too populous, too mighty and rich for…
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Bible, boat, Canada, Christmas, church, college, family, Groningen, organ, politics, religion, school, ship, Winschoten
Wedderveer
Read More: WedderveerThe farm in Wedderveer. Note the fruit trees close to the barn, the orchard of the neighbour Begeman on the right, the tractor shed at the back, the vegetable garden this side the clothesline and the rows of potatoes between clothesline and shed. On the left the small barn of our immediate neighbour Van der…
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Arnhem, Bach, Bible, church, Easter, family, God, Groningen, Hommes, marriage, organ, school, ship, Winschoten
World War II
Read More: World War IIThe family and its circumstances during WWII How should I begin? Perhaps with my birth in Blyham (NL) on 3 October 1936, as my Mom told me many years later. Could a time be darker, a place be humbler? Hitler tightening his grip on Germany’s people, raucously goading them towards catastrophic war. A small farm…
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Dear Kees and Hittie
Read More: Dear Kees and HittieMy children said: Dad must still have something to do, and gave me a computer for my 60th birthday. You didn’t know that for quite a few years in the past, I wrote a Dutch page in a Dutch-Canadian weekly.
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~ The Weather Turns
Read More: ~ The Weather TurnsI would often go and play the organ in church now. I preferred that to studying. I wouldn’t pass the final exam anyway, even if I threw myself into my studies. Rehearsing four years of study material from unfamiliar textbooks was an impossibility
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~ Have Mercy on Us
Read More: ~ Have Mercy on UsSometimes a sudden emotion vibrates inside you. At the back of the garden, you hear a bird singing. A grandchild examines your face with pure, serious eyes. An organ in a cathedral hums under the vaults, along high steep walls
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~ The Flying Priest
Read More: ~ The Flying PriestThe Lord bless you and keep you. The little boy peeked up at their pastor — Just for a moment! It was a sin if you opened your eyes while praying
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Hoofdstuk Zeven
Read More: Hoofdstuk ZevenDe laatste week van mijn verblijf in Canada bracht ik weer in het gezin van Maaike door. Het was wel mooi in Simcoe en Toronto, maar waar is het beter verkeren dan bij je eigen familie? Pieter haalde me op met de auto. Voorwaar een hele tocht, en hij had dat ook niet behoeven te…
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Hoofdstuk Zes
Read More: Hoofdstuk ZesAls de vaat gewassen is en het aanrecht keurig schoon is, heb je met een flinke man des huizes te doen in een modern gezin. Ik weet dat bij ondervinding want ofschoon ik een kleine afwas heb is het aanrecht altijd opgeruimd. Opgeruimd staat netjes, zegt mevrouw Franken, die mij de klappen van de zweep…