As promised. More to come. I’ve come up upon some minor stumbling blocks reading the old fairy tales – one is the language and sentence structure of the era, one is translation into English that makes the sentences awkward, then the people who translate them don’t often use the correct punctuation. For example, they leave …

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More fairy tales-  or are they? you might have to  go to the original link  below ,as some of the copied links may not transfer directly- http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/antisemitic.html The Jews’ Stone (Austria) Link to the original text: Der Judenstein, Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, Deutsche Sagen, Nr. 353 Link to a well documented study of the blood …

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I would think it would be tempting, in the wake of losing your child, to avoid listening to anyone, to shut down and simply soldier on resolutely. Particularly to try and defend what is left of your child’s existence, to provide a last bastion of refuge at least for their memory, to shelter and protect …

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