Dear friends,
things could be so easy if life would not play its own game with us.
This year there will be no Annual Letter from Lis as in former years. And if, only a lot later. She needs her time and energy for other things.
We are now in an age where we worry more and more about the people next to us: Parents die, that is irretrievable. But also friends and partners are overtaken by death, often unexpected, but sometimes predictably and after a long period of illness. That this is so, that it is natural – we know that, but displace it often in a varying manner.
What remains is the grief no one is spared of for those remaining back. Or maybe you are facing a time to a foreseeable end, the days and weeks of ups and downs, the uncertainty, the questions: What should be, has to be, could be done to relieve the suffering or at least make it otherwise bearable. The time of our own weakness.
Now this is just our Christmas this year. Lis is in Germany with her mother and her siblings. And she needs her strength there, just waiting…
So I try to gather the essentials of this year that is gone, as always, and always before we could settle in it; I’ll try to hand it out later.
From the sunny and still (almost) rainless island of La Palma I wish all of you contemplative and peaceful Christmas and a prosperous and peaceful New Year, which can at least be recognized as to be more peaceful. Remain or become healthy and happy life to you.
Everything in life is temporary. So if things a going good, enjoy it because it won’t last forever. And if things are going bad, don’t worry. It can’t last forever either.
Hugs and kisses,
Lis und Reinard
