01 August

The Harvest Dance – A Short Story from Our Table


A pen-and-ink drawing showing a dancing girl in a long dress, wearing a wreath of flowers, holding a rye sheaf with grains in her right hand, against a backdrop of the sun and fields in the distance. 

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Summer is slowly coming to an end. It’s still warm, and most days are sunny. As I sat outside basking in the sun, I was reminded of a short story my grandmother once told me when we were in the kitchen together and she was preparing dinner for the whole family. On the table lay freshly picked vegetables and fruit from my grandparents’ garden. I was delighted by the sight of dark burgundy cherries in a small bowl, green and red apples, and a wicker basket filled with various vegetables—leeks, beets, cabbage, and potatoes. Most of them had been peeled for a dish, and the black currants were waiting to be made into compote and sprinkled on a homemade fruit tart. I couldn’t take my eyes off all these wonderful things that Grandma had just brought from the orchard and garden.

 

30 July

Midnight forest

A drawing of an owl rendered in white lines against a dark, nocturnal background, with a branch that resembles a misty, nocturnal apparition.
Midnight Owl

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Watcher of the midnight forest,

keeper of small secrets.

It perched where stories settle.

In the silence of the night, in the fading mist...

 

 

27 July

Ideas for Stories as Seen Through My Eyes

Pencil drawing of little child wearing hat and jacket sitting in listening pose against darker background.
 One
 
 
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Painting with my eyes,

what I see in that moment.

My fingers feel soft and fresh,

As I rub small pine cone

from beloved grandmom.

 

The air is steeped in the fragrance

and memory.

It`s a day that passes like this.

 

The cupboard opened a wooden, painted, forgotten drawer,

in which a beautiful story had long been resting,

a story that wanted to be read aloud

to a little one who couldn’t fall asleep that night.

It begins like this:

 

25 July

So What Are Melodies?


Dawn and dusk

Harmonious slow wind and

Echoes of calling birds

Nocturne,

Ballad,

Waltz,

Prelude,

Sonata,

Fantasia,

Lullaby,

Serenade

24 July

What the Forest Taught Us

How silent feel (in the forest)

  

The trees stood close together, near is the meadow.

First came a bird. It tilted its head and stayed.

Then a rabbit sat very still, ears high.
A deer stepped closer.

A fox appeared—thin, careful, watching.