EAST GERMANY and the ESCAPE:

Kitchen Table Memoirs

Albert Kienitz signing books ~ His biography was written by his daughter, Doris

"She tells it with grace, honesty, and humility, wrapping the reader in the world her parents lived in...and ultimately left.  I did indeed find myself blotting my eyes as I read...and was relieved that my tears were tempered with the opportunity to laugh out loud, as well."

~ Jessica Bradshaw, Author of The Unbound Series.

 

Book Signing, York Grand River Historical Society

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Smile for Today ~

Come to me, O ye children!
For I hear you at your play,
And the questions that perplexed me
Have vanished quite away.

In your hearts are the birds and the sunshine,
In your thoughts the brooklet's flow,
But in mine is the wind of Autumn

And the first fall of the snow.

For what are all our contrivings,
And the wisdom of our books,
When compared with your caresses,
And the gladness of your looks?

Ye are better than all the ballads
That ever were sung or said;
For ye are living poems,
And all the rest are dead.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) American poet.

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