Author Archives: Michaela

It was a hot and lazy summer. For days and weeks the temperature held well over 30 Celsius and, on some days, even peaked as high as 38 degrees. Nobody felt like moving, eating or even thinking too much. We just … Continue reading →

Pallas Athena, the commanding figure in front of the Austrian parliament on Vienna’s Ringstraße, has always made quite an impression on me. I remember her well from my early years of childhood, when my grandmother took me to the park opposite … Continue reading →

There is a curious mural on a building facing the back of our garden. It shows two giant hands,  as if  they were reaching down from heaven,  cupping a pretty, green globe, like a delicate plant or sapling.  The image is … Continue reading →

This is Mozart’s last symphony, composed in the summer of 1788. This is so much more than a piece of classical music…this is a piece of eternity

Happy Christmas, everyOne