Where The Sky Meets The Earth! My Birth-Land! [2018 Is My & The Earth Dog Year]

mammasitta (70)in #culture • 7 years ago (edited)

On January 1st,2018 .....I reflect on the land where I was born, trying to research my roots, looking at pictures from my first visit, after returning to Austria. Many years past bye before I put my footsteps on my birthplace again.

I am writing this for my daughter to understand where a part of her family is from....

It seems strange that I am born on some land, I couldn't find any connection for most part of my life (still don't) but I found out where the sky meets the earth....

"The land of my birth, the land where I was born"

"The sun is the most precious gold to be found on earth. The strength of the sun is within us. It was a strange but romantic coming-home moment of freedom, after leaving Bali!" - Mammasitta

Blockheide - Nature park

Wackelstein!

The Blockheide is a protected area in northwestern Waldviertel in Lower Austria. It is a varied heather landscape including meadows, mixed woods, small lakes and small fields. The nature park is famous for its far-flung giant granite blocks. - Source Wikipedia

Sunsets are the happy illusions of our Mother Nature. "There is a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.” - Jo Walton

I was raised in Vienna and consider myself a real citygirl but I always find my balance in nature as well. Can't live without the influence of both, throughout the years.

My article : When The Sun Has Set, No Candle Can Replace It ( Quote by George R.R. Martin )

It seemed to be always COLD!

My mother and father were raised in this boring little town. That's all I know and I do remember my fathers home and my mother's sisters.

I spent most of my unforgettably fun school holidays with my Grand Parents in Lower Austria, "Waldviertel", the small town called Gmuend. Those days taught me about simple life around nature, my best friend.

border Ceske Velenice/Gmuend

We called the border to "Czechoslovakia" the iron curtain, a closed "gate" for us curious kids. The Communists lived at the other side of our world, we were not allowed to know.

The Iron Curtain was the name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. - Source Wikipedia

Read more about The Fall of Communism 1989!

That's the sad way, how I do remember the strange sight and view from our small little town. It was always a weird feeling to be cut off our neighbor's guarded country.

I needed to see the wide world without "borders" and those "towers of control".

I also remember this church where we went to sneak up to see the priest kissing his "lover" behind those windows where we kids were hiding, to catch him in "action". I never understood the meaning of " religion" back then.

So, those were some images, reminding me about a little part, who I am and what I left.......

2018 is The Earth Dog Year!

Let's see what it will bring to us "Earthy Dogs", my daughter Tahnee and myself.

Might be interesting......

You are a Dog chinese zodiac animal, if you are born in one of these years: 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006, 2018. The Chinese Horoscope 2018 predicts that this year of the Brown Earth Dog is going to be a very good year in all respects but it will also be an exhausting year. - Source Wiki

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