Erich Kästner (1899´1974)

Newsletter #40 - 1st January 2021

“I blinked my eyes
and in an instant,
decades had passed.” 
― John Mark Green, Taste the Wild Wonder: Poems.

For 32 years I have started the New Year in exactly the same way. I am always awake early, brew my pot of tea and whilst the world is still asleep I fetch my now dog-eared copy of Erich Kaestner‘s „Gedichte“, turn to …