tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289278000277019122.post8163602042213844797..comments2024-03-27T18:23:34.322+08:00Comments on WEBS OF SIGNIFICANCE: Memories of -- and lessons from -- the (fall of the) Berlin WallYTSLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930487923185001591noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289278000277019122.post-2556681302530456722014-11-16T00:12:23.751+08:002014-11-16T00:12:23.751+08:00Hi Sandi --
Thanks for thinking of me and stoppin...Hi Sandi --<br /><br />Thanks for thinking of me and stopping by even though I'm not Photo Hunting these days. I haven't been back to Berlin since that summer 1989 visit either. Have been back to Germany though -- and maybe it's my imagination but the vibe definitely did feel different!YTSLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09930487923185001591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289278000277019122.post-80783334197241332392014-11-15T23:03:39.569+08:002014-11-15T23:03:39.569+08:00Think of you... I know this has been a difficult t...Think of you... I know this has been a difficult time. I follow through the bits of news we get.<br />I think the Berlin wall is a lesson to hold onto. I have not been back to Berlin since the 80's. I would love to go and see the 'new' city!Sandi @the WhistleStop Cafehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06113437420890699732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289278000277019122.post-17830040189863355882014-11-12T01:04:32.890+08:002014-11-12T01:04:32.890+08:00Hi Bill --
Thanks for sharing your divided Berlin...Hi Bill --<br /><br />Thanks for sharing your divided Berlin memories. <br /><br />The first time I came across the Berlin Wall, I didn't do so deliberately but found that a museum (where the Orientalist art exhibition I had gone to the city primarily to see -- I did my undergraduate art history thesis on that art!) that I had gone to visit was located near part of the wall.<br /><br />YTSLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09930487923185001591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289278000277019122.post-87662084558249104252014-11-11T22:20:48.527+08:002014-11-11T22:20:48.527+08:00Hi YTSL,
I can personally relate to this blog bec...Hi YTSL,<br /><br />I can personally relate to this blog because I visited Berlin on a train journey through Europe as a youth, terrified to be alone overseas for the first time...This was about twenty years before you visited (obviously I'm older than you)...After passing through the checkpoint into East Berlin, walking through the streets filled with dull Soviet architecture, studying the Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289278000277019122.post-20237307145010445192014-11-10T08:13:18.469+08:002014-11-10T08:13:18.469+08:00Hi peppylady --
Re Israel and Palestine, and in g...Hi peppylady --<br /><br />Re Israel and Palestine, and in general: having walls strengthens divides between people to my mind.<br /><br />Re the other matter: It's funny, when I lived in the US, often times, people seem to feel like the US was in a world of its own. So I'm surprised to hear you ascribe the breaking down of the middle class to the events that began with the fall of the YTSLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09930487923185001591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289278000277019122.post-10076231388850075082014-11-10T01:21:19.496+08:002014-11-10T01:21:19.496+08:00I'm flip on walls. Look at what happening in I...I'm flip on walls. Look at what happening in Israel and Palestine.<br />When they took down Berlin wall it was the beginning of breaking down the middle class for people in the United States.<br /><br />Coffee is on peppylady (Dora)https://www.blogger.com/profile/01649272822470007714noreply@blogger.com