I love to use my voice - in any way shape or form. Singing, reading aloud, guided meditations or simply sharing a story: I‘m here for all of these things, and I refuse to make different channels for different types of content.
If this confuses people or makes me get fewer subscribers, so be it.
🇩🇪 Good Day, Alana! Mandy in Pennsylvania here...up in the wee hours, to listen to your expressive voice. I love the lilt. I was telling someone yesterday about my German GreatGrandmother, Charlotte. She left her fairly wealthy family in Berlin (✨️💍💍✨️chandeliers!) at 16, to travel alone by boat to the US. Worked as a maid in New York City 🗽🏢🏙💒🏫⛪️🕍🏥🚇🏢🏩🎢🚞🚢🗽 and married a young Englishman who left home in much the same way.⛵️🛟 They moved to Washington D.C, had my Grandmother Edna, and opened a Beer and Crabcakes cafe,🍻🍺🍻🦀🦀🦀 with clams, mussels and codcakes🦪🦪🦪🦪🦪 🥨🥨🥨 🍺🥨🍺🥨 and pretzels as other choices.🦀🍻🦪🍺🥨✨️ Here's to one case of International Cooperation✨️ 🍺✨️🇩🇪🇬🇧🇺🇸 and one of the results, Me! 🍀😉🇩🇪🇨🇵🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴🏴😢😢
I am doing remarkably well...considering the intense Sea Changes in my Life...here my natural instinct is to call you something personal and German, like "liebchen"...is that okay? And I don't mean "is that how you spell it?" Alana, I have barely had 2 minutes to rub together for YT comments these last 2 months! But I thought of you for a moment, when I showed my late sister Delia's best friend, Neeru, a Tablescape I created on our ancestral family Dining Table (a beautiful pedastal table, with rich dark leaves...and quite wide, to give the Hosts at head and foot good "elbow room".) Anyway, at my brother Michael's hypothetical seat, on my Mother's right (he is second child of four, Delia is third. They have both passed now, from Multiple Sclerosis...my eldest brother still lives, though he is in Twilight, and takes Warfarin due to a blood clot several years ago, after a stroke. I am the youngest, seated on my Mother's left...She is gone on now, too, at 91...and my father escaped ALS and Life back in 1979, when he was only 50. Like Baseball Player Lou Gherig, fpr whom that dread disease is named (think "Pride of the Yankees") my Dad was nearly "The Iron Horse". But back to the Tablescape...at Michael's monstrously mischievous place, among other simply sweeter tokens, sits a sepia&bold black, green-spined hardbàck (German-only) copy of Max Und Moritz, by Wilhelm Busch. Michael was surely headed for the Miller's Grinder, if you know what I mean. But/and he surely got ground into Duck Meal, by M.S. and circumstances of his own choice and making (ding- dang dodo duck!😮) The table WAS set up for 6, my Father, Mother, and us 4 kids, ranged out from a 17-year span...but I made a "Process Improvement" after a couple of days, and added 1) my BIL Pete, husband to my Darling Delia, no extra chair because he often used a wheelchair (and if not, their spirits can easily share a chair, lovebirds flying free now) AND now there is a SEVENTH chair, one next to my Ded (who moved over to give him room at the Head of the Table (both natural bookworms, but with practical day to day skills to balance the vast Headspace with Hand and Heart!) My old fellow John, here and not here, has a hypohetical chance at sitting at Holiday Table with my family...and IF he did, he would have one of the Host Seats, East or West, I don't care which one he wants! I will take the other pole, and the Table Map will Map Itself! I know this sounds goofy...but I am being sincere. No subterfuge or trickery, to steal the Widow Tibbets' poor hens and rooster, for a rooftop feast. Max and Moritz are very bad, and Spitz is right, to want to bite them! I have to go now...but will be bsck soon, for the next chapter. Danke, Liebchen 🫡🌚🇩🇪🐑🫠😉🖤❤️💛👋👋👋@@alana_k_novak
😉🩵🤕 I'm having to translate most of the words, but your voice and the illustrations are "top notch". Especially your yawns and stretches! They're so accurate and dramatic, they are hilarious. 😂 My cat Oscar is here napping, but he looked up during that part, like "Mom, you sound sleepy, why you sitting up awake??!" 💖🐈⬛🥱💤
@@alana_k_novak Thanks. 🐈⬛💤 He does enjoy certain expressive voices, and some music. He is a rescue cat from a shelter, so he came with his noble name...though if I had named him myself, he'd probably be Kurt, Fritz or Friedrich, he just seems...Germanic. We usually name our boy cats "people names", like Jack, Andrew, Gabriel. 🐈⬛🐈🐈⬛ Now time to get back to bed, here in Pennsylvania! 👋😉😌💤
@@amandamcquade1272 I got my cats from the shelter as well, but I changed their names. They were still young, and I picked names with the same vowel sounds.😄 much love to you and your Germanic cats from Europe❤️🙏😊
🫡💙 I'm an English-speaking American, but I grew up with Max and Moritz...with these wonderful illustrations. Our copy is in German and English.🇩🇪 🇺🇸 Please read and show The Two Ducks and the Frog! 🦆🦆🐸 Danke! 😊
How funny!😍 I had no idea Busch's stories were popular outside of Germany. I'm actually planning on reading out and showing the whole book, as I'm really enjoying making these little videos...😄The Two Ducks and the Frog is a story I am not (yet) familiar with, but if it is in the book, which I assume, then it will come🥰 Next one in order is "die fromme Helene"😃 so happy you liked this video💗 my best regards to the US!❣
@@alana_k_novak Guten Morgen, Alana 🌄🗽 (I am guessing at the spelling!) My great-grandmother immigrated from Germany by herself, as a teenager in the 1890's, so I learned a few German words from her daughter, my dear "Grossmutter".👵👩🦳 I think our German-only hardback copy of Max Und Moritz was purchased when my father was stationed in Germany (U.S. Army Signal Corps, in 1953-54) and the German/English book with original illustrations, plus extra stories, was purchased here in the US, back in the 60's. I hope you can find the stories, they are a blast. Another is about two dogs, 🐕🐕🦺Ker and Plunk (Plisch und Plum). Happy Reading! 📚🌍🌎
@@alana_k_novak📚🩵 I checked, and our English copy was published in 1962. "Max and Moritz, with many more mischief makers..." edited and translated by H. Arthur Klein. I loved the drawings in The Two Ducks and the Frog so much that I drew them, freehand, in my journal. Spoiler alert: The frog survives...and thrives! 🐸🦆🦆
@@amandamcquade1272 Ok I checked: The story of the two ducks and the frog is NOT in my book, but I looked it up on the internet. Perhaps I can find another way to make a video out of it, by using the material I found online. I will check concerning copyright, but I think it should work since it's so old😄🙏
@@amandamcquade1272 omg I just saw the very first comment of yours!😂🙈 your spelling is fine btw😉 You have an intriguing story. Yes, Plisch und Plum is DEFINITELY on my reading list, I loved that one as a kid🥰 some research has shed light on where to find Busch‘s shorter stories, and I‘m thinking about purchasing these other books so I can read them out. Take care🌻🌻🌻🤗
