R.I.P dear MAMA

R.I.P dear MAMA (27.02.1947 - 18.07.2022).

liebe mama, ich danke dir. ruhe in frieden und ruhe sanft.

mother + son, 2019

funeral in bratislava (pressburg). combined in slovak & german language. on a beautiful sunny friday, 22.07.2022. many thanks to the evangelic pastor. she was so kind, she found so nice words and sung so nice for my mother & all of us to make the final farewell easier ...

Liebe Mama, seit meinem ersten Tag warst Du da. Jetzt hast Du Dich entschieden zu gehen 😕. Du hast Dich um mich, um uns 4 Kinder, sooo viel gekümmert und gesorgt ... für die Schule, Freizeit, Sport ... Mama, Mama, Mama, Du hast Dir oft den schwierigsten Weg ausgesucht ... Was möchte ich Dir noch sagen? Auf dem Grabstein Deiner Mutter steht: In Gottes Hand schon ohne Schmerz, schlaf ruhig, teures Mutterherz. Ich wünsche auch Dir, dass da wo Du jetzt bist es keine Sorgen, Angst, Arbeit, Schmerz oder Pflichten gibt. Nur noch Frieden, Freude, Ruhe. Und wenn Du von oben runterschaust, dann wisse, Deine Mühe war nicht umsonst .... Mama, schade dass Du gegangen bist. Mama, danke dass Du da warst. Mama, Ich liebe Dich sehr 💔

it is difficult to say anything ... of course, you have lived your life ... sometimes challenging & hard, often busy & engaged with full time work and taking care of us 4 children (and of father too 😃), but mostly happy and nice, i feel ... please know, all your effort was not in vain. THANKS FOR EVERYTHING + GOOD-BYE, DEAR MOTHER 💗😍🍀

... MORE COMING SOON OR NEVER ...

crematorium in bratislava, friday, 23.07.2022

07/2022

funeral banquet, bratislava, friday, 22.07.2022

let's try to go back in time ... can we?

06/2022 (getting stronger and laughing again 😄)

04/2022 (very weak ...)

2021

on caffeine ~ mother + me, 2020

2020

2019

2019

2018

2018, you always loved coffee + something sweet, didn't you?

2018

2017

2017

2016, you can't stop the time or ignore reality, dear mother ... 

avoiding pictures doesn't help either 😃

2016

2015

2015

1995 (?) at the frozen lake in velka kamenica, eastern slovakia, SK

thanks for our family tree (stammbaum) what you've collected, designed, painted & made for us, dear mother 😃

1965 + 1977

1968

1951 ?

all the best on your last way + good-bye, dear mama, mamicka, mother, mutter 💗💓💔💕

if the last way is a journey or if there is any soul, you will surely find the way to your beloved home spitznberg and einsiedel an der göllnitz, won't you?

+ to my home town  kosice / kaschau / kassa, where you spent the biggest part of your life, too?

many, many, many more (family) pictures here 😭

RIP, ruhe in frieden, ruhe sanft ...

eol => eof

dear mother ...

dear mother, it is so difficult to say anything and it is so nice to spend some time with you ... i hope you can enjoy your time anyway ... thanks for everything, i love you ...

bratislava

.-. some earlier thoughts here ...
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dear mother

well, it is not always easy to become older, is it? especially if  you need some assistance in daily life affairs. thanks to my youngest brother and his wife our ailing mother is still quite fine, still among family and still healthy enough to walk through the day, remember all of us children ... and smile from time to time :o)

and it is so easy to make you a pleasure today, dear mother. a short walk, a cup of coffee and a cake and you are happy. it used to be more difficult before :-). happiness is state of mind, isn't it? the whole your life could be easier and more cheerful if you would allow more joy and easiness to yourself and to us, i guess, dear mother.

dear mother + son .... liebe mama, mutter, mamicka ,,,

i was so happy to spend few days in early may with you in bratislava. we walked a lot at the river danube banks (dunaj, donau), explored the whole mountain park (horsky park), spent a lot of time the in the museum of carpathian germans in the old zuckermandl district. it was interesting for me to learn, that not only our native zips (spis) region in the eastern slovakian mountains was settled by germans many hundred years ago. also in today's slovak capital bratislava were germans the majority even when the first czechoslovak state has arisen in 1918, ...

enjoy few pictures from bratislava:

 zuckermandl, part of the old city between danube river and the castle hill

 museum of carpathian germans in bratislava (contains also hungarian, celtic + roman expositions)

 a small church in zuckermandl

 restaurant at the river danube

all the best to you, dear mother ... and see you next time again

all the best, dear mother ... i'm just watching my pictures taken in late july 2020 when visiting my mother & my brother's family in bratislava / SK. and yes, there is some similarity even if she smiles more naturally than me, isn't there?

more pictures from bratislava here.

insights from 2016 here.

my visit in september 2018 here
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