Christmas Letter
Français
Dear circle of friends,
the winter really isn’t joking this year! The whole of Thuringia and Saxony is buried under masses of snow, so that after endless delays, the entire train services have come to a standstill. At the station in Erfurt, the information board was switched off at 9 pm, as no trains could enter the station anyway. In our world otherwise oh so timed to the minute, that is a unique offer! I can only highly recommend it to everyone: after hours of maximum adrenalin terror, I for my part have reached the state of blissful, dreamy happiness.
The time of advent is quite welcome to me this year to unwind and bethink. Workwise it has been a hard year. My company is yet a bit more renowned, but thanks to the crisis, I had to fight with some bitter losses. Apart from the financial side, I would never have thought how much missing esteem in your work and the felt futility can eat up your soul. Also to the students at Erfurt, where I am regularly teaching, I still need to get used to. Lets put it this way: they have very special needs and abilities.
But luckily there has been a magnificent counter-programme. For one thing there was glamour in New York, where Olaf and I were listening to Jane Krakowski, close as you can get in a posh nightclub, while drinking a half-bottle of wine for 95 dollars. Dani’s wedding in Nuremburg was almost as stylish, once we had digested the shock that the venue named “Greenhouse” was in fact actually a greenhouse, without plants though. There the bride and I enjoyed Aperol Spritz (champagne with Aperol), in proper style and in quantities lacking any style. The wedding of Kristina and Hannes on the other hand was quite a good diet programme for me: when you bake five cakes in one day, it is practically guaranteed that you will not eat any. And I learnt that love of children is inversely proportional to the number of children present.
Furthermore my life has grown by one dimension. I cannot count how many 3D photos I have taken with my new camera. My site
www.3d-photos.net, in any case, is already pretty imposing. Photography has enriched my life incredibly.
The 3D photos alone are brilliant. But what is more is that I go through life with different eyes, look at things I would never have seen and discover the
world around me. I find that it has made me a more awake person.
What the next year will bring? Hopefully more stability in my work life (working on that), so that I can fully enjoy life once again. Plan two is to see more of my Godson Konstantin and his twin brothers (“the godson brigade”). And there is a third plan: to spend more time with you and I ask you kindly to remind me impertinently with soft blows on the head.
Right, dearies. I wish you a happy Christmas time and that you enjoy life. Most likely there won’t be seconds.
Yours Frank
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