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(Köln)

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My self portrait (left) taken near Mt. Edith Cavell (Jasper, Canada)

and (right) at a Austrian retirement party
with my friend Ernst (Mr. Ski) this January (2000)

My favorite (based on length of stay?) of all extended working vacations was 8 months here:
A great place to go for a hike, a ski tour, a motorcycle tour...or a "cure" in a mineral spa.

In fact it looks a lot like home:

Can life be a blessing,
Or worth the possessing,
Can life be a blessing, if love were away?
Ah, no! though our love all night keep us waking,
And though he torment us with cares all the day,
Yet he sweetens, he sweetens our pains in the taking;
There's an hour at the last, there's an hour to repay.

In every possessing
The ravishing blessing,
In every possessing the fruit of our pain,
Poor lovers forget long ages of anguish,
Whate'er they have suffered and done to obtain;
'Tis a pleasure, a pleasure to sigh and to languish,
When we hope, when we hope to be happy again.

--John Dryden (1631-1700)

Salutation

O generation of the thoroughly smug
and thoroughly uncomfortable,
I have seen fishermen picnicking in the sun,
I have seen them with untidy families,
have seen their smiles full of teeth
and heard ungainly laughter.
And I am happier than you are,
and they were happier than I am;
And the fish swim in the lake
and do not even own clothing.

--Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

My Favorite Web Sites

My Home Page (back to it)
Austria Club of Washington
Pictoral tour of Europe