by Hanna Miley | Oct 25, 2022 | Blog
Photo by Wandaline Joassin After the flood, Gemünd, Eifel. Dieter looks down from the upstairs window, he sees us in the street below, standing around the Stolperstein in front of the house next door. We are filming. He comes down and hands George and I an envelope...
by Hanna Miley | Sep 6, 2022 | Blog
Redemption Church Alhambra, Phoenix | Photo by Thomas Cogdell Thomas Cogdell came to Phoenix, last week. Friday evening he introduced his newly published book, Unity Through Repentance to an enthusiastic audience at Redemption Church Alhambra. Saturday morning he...
by Hanna Miley | Aug 31, 2022 | Blog
Sourced from Google Years ago when I was a new immigrant, learning to live in America, we watched Antique Roadshow, a live TV series where experts offered to appraise family heirlooms or dusty, forgotten oddities discovered in attics and cellars. As the camera slowly...
by Hanna Miley | Aug 25, 2022 | Blog
Around the Coffee Table | Photo by Ryan Thurman As usual, last Saturday morning, our small team met in the kitchen, catching up, eating snacks, drinking coffee, seated around the low table. As best we can we are preparing for a major event, something way beyond our...
by Hanna Miley | Aug 16, 2022 | Blog
When you reach a certain age, the conversation with contemporaries often veers to bones and organs. In his latest email, a dear and famous friend of 50 years, also called George, describes his wonder in seeing again after cataract surgery… like new eyes And then he...
by Hanna Miley | Aug 3, 2022 | Blog
Shadows, A new memorial of deportation in Amsterdam | Artist Ram Katzir. Photograph from The New York Times. Shadows My eyes are pulled into a series of photos embedded in an article by Nina Siegel in The New York Times, titled, Photos That Helped to Document the...
by Hanna Miley | Jul 26, 2022 | Blog
My parents trod on these stones, on their way to Köln/Deutz railway station Walter and Ernst, Companions on my Journey The city is Köln, Germany, where my parents and I spent the last few months of our lives as a family of three. Walter Volmer is the retired Criminal...
by Hanna Miley | Jul 14, 2022 | Blog
Sourced from Google | Photographer Unknown That first Christmas in the British Midlands I tasted unusual delicacies and heard strange new words. It was 1939 and I was 7 years old, desperately trying to understand what was expected of me when the instruction manual...
by Hanna Miley | Jun 28, 2022 | Blog
Why was Marc Chagall, 1887-1985, a Shetl Jew, so preoccupied with Jesus on the cross? “White Crucifixion” by Marc Chagall | Circa 1938 | Sourced from Google Marc Chagall | Photo by Li Erben | Sourced from Google Chagall’s inspired use of color | Title unknown |...
by Hanna Miley | Jun 23, 2022 | Blog
An Eclectic Reading List Today began with a slow read of Matthew 24 and Jesus’ warning, See that no one leads you astray and Let not your love grow cold in a time of increased lawlessness. And then I thought about our present experience of lawlessness and opened...
