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Making Time for Life

Thursday, February 11th, 2016

Making time to see and appreciate,

Making time to hear and feel,

Making time to laugh and cry,

Making time to love attentively,

Making time to forget time,

Making time to be happy.

–Richard Erlewein, freely translated into English by J. Elke Ertle

Making time to see and feel, photo © J. Elke Ertle, 2015

For a sneak peek at the first 20+ pages of my memoir, Walled-In: A West Berlin Girl’s Journey to Freedom, click “Download a free excerpt” on the home page of http://www.walled-in-berlin.com. Walled-In is a story of growing up in Berlin during the Cold War.

Tags: happiness recipe, Life at its Best, life-lesson, Making time
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Do you have a superiority complex?

Thursday, February 4th, 2016

It is common knowledge among psychologists that most of us underrate ourselves, short-change ourselves, sell ourselves short. Actually, there is no such thing as a superiority complex. People who seem to have one are actually suffering from feelings of inferiority; their “superior” self is a fiction, a cover-up, to hide from themselves and others their deep-down feelings of inferiority and insecurity.

–Maxwell Maltz

For a sneak peek at the first 20+ pages of my memoir, Walled-In: A West Berlin Girl’s Journey to Freedom, click “Download a free excerpt” on the home page of http://www.walled-in-berlin.com

Tags: arrogance, ego, inferiority, insecurity, superiority complex
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loneliness versus being alone

Thursday, January 28th, 2016

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

–Charles Bukowski

For a sneak peek at the first 20+ pages of my memoir, Walled-In: A West Berlin Girl’s Journey to Freedom, click “Download a free excerpt” on the home page of http://www.walled-in-berlin.com

Tags: detachment, friendlessness, loneliness
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Making the Most of Life

Thursday, January 21st, 2016

We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us.

–Anonymous

Sunset over the Pacific, photo Sonja Brzostowicz 2014

For a sneak peek at the first 20+ pages of my memoir, Walled-In: A West Berlin Girl’s Journey to Freedom, click “Download a free excerpt” on the home page of http://www.walled-in-berlin.com

Tags: making the most of life, travel
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Taking care of money and time

Thursday, January 14th, 2016

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For a sneak peek at the first 20+ pages of my memoir, Walled-In: A West Berlin Girl’s Journey to Freedom, click “Download a free excerpt” on my home page and feel free to follow my blog about anything German: historic or current events, people, places or food.

Walled-In is my story of growing up in Berlin during the Cold War. Juxtaposing the events that engulfed Berlin during the Berlin Blockade, the Berlin Airlift, the Berlin Wall and Kennedy’s Berlin visit with the struggle against my equally insurmountable parental walls, Walled-In is about freedom vs. conformity, conflict vs. harmony, domination vs. submission, loyalty vs. betrayal.

Tags: value of money, value of time
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Responsible for your problems

Thursday, January 7th, 2016

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

–Albert Ellis

For a sneak peek at the first 20+ pages of my memoir, Walled-In: A West Berlin Girl’s Journey to Freedom, click “Download a free excerpt” on the home page of http://www.walled-in-berlin.com. Walled-In is a story of growing up in Berlin during the Cold War.

Tags: best years of your life, blaming, grounded personality, maturity, taking responsibility
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