A Thanksgiving Gift
Admittedly I am jumping the gun a bit because we are nowhere near Thanksgiving just yet, but I felt truly fulfilled the other day and wanted to write about the experience.
Portrait of an Artist and a Man
A friend of mine from back in Freiburg days has been a full professor of English at the University of Leipzig for a decade or more now. When Elmar of the blue eyes, very curly hair and infectious smile recently emailed me an attachment of a painting he had just finished of a beautiful area called Soest, close to where I now live, I was absolutely astonished – I knew he dabbled in the arts in addition to his work at the university, but I had no idea just how talented he was, nor could I understand how he managed to find the time. So I asked him if he might answer a few questions for me, and thought a portrait of such a versatile personality deserved to find a space here.
Did you ever expect you would be a prof?
Yes, at the age of ten or eleven I wanted to become a professor of history, but then the idea faded away and was replaced by “chemist,” “psychologist,” “writer.”
