14 Engeltjes

2015.12 Blog 05 - 14 angels

Do you remember the poem of the fourteen angels?

Some time ago I visited a monastery with church in Bavaria (Germany). I always visit this area as it has a magnificent surrounding with a beautiful small forrest and fields with wheat, mais and potatoes grown on it. You can make beautiful walks, listen to the birds and calm down after a stressful day. After the walk and enlighten a candle in the church I visited the small monastery shop. It is a lovely, tiny shop, with a lot of beautiful things. And there it was, a candle with a sentence on it about the fourteen angels … more…

Animal inspiration in Solukhumbu

Solukhumbu-Nepal

While trekking in Solo, the lower part of the Solukhumbu (Everest) region, animals accompany me during the whole day. It is amazing how beautiful nature, people and animals are in this region.

People depend on animals in this area. The animals support them during their daily work, but people also depend on them for living. Cows, chicken, goats and yaks are for the meat. Mules, buffalo´s, cows and yaks help them to manage the work in the fields. It is very beautiful to see and for us nowadays unusual to see how people and animals work and live together en depend on each other very strong. more…