大象传媒

'Once in a blue moon, phoenix spreads its wings. In blue moonlight heaven and earth are like day and night and the bird will fly up after daybreak.'
搁别苍茅
(Near to : 'A way to keep in good health' ,Prof dr. Lu Guanjun, China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine
'essence of heaven' from 'The exercise of three-essence of life by movements and calmness.)
Have you heard of the mythical phoenix-bird that arises from the ashes ?
The question of course is: 'When is the moment that it rises and where it flies to. '
I figured out an answer ! At nightfall there is still sunlight from the West and in the East you can already see the moon in the sky ! Sometimes when the sky is really clear (once in a blue moon)it looks like the moon is surrounded by a blue lightened heaven. When this bird flies up ; it is not flying towards the moon and the dark night that is to arrive soon; no, the higher it flies the more sunlight there is still in the air. If the bird has enough power it will fly westwards forever and ever ; after daybreak!
If you find a copy of the first edition of Herg茅's'Tintin in Tibet' or 'Emerald', you'll see bright blue moonlight. And those moonlight-shadows while the gypsies play their guitars and an owl is howling are really beautiful ! .It's not easy to find a copy of the first editions of those cartoons for kids that are still in good condition.

Today is 6th December. This evening, in our church we celebrated 'Holy Nicolas of Myra's birthday. In the Netherlands the birthday of 'Sinterklaas'has it's traditions. Children that behaved well surely found presents in their shoe this morning.

On this day 1951, The London Times published the picture of a footprint of the Abominable Snowman. Eric Shipton (in his book :'The Mount Everest Reconaissance Expedition 1951') : 'It was on one of the glaciers of the Menlung basin, at a height of about 19,000 feet, that, late one afternoon, we came across those curious footprints in the snow, the report of which has caused a certain amount of public interest in Britain....These particular ones seemed to be very fresh, probably not more than 24 hours old.'

The picture inspired Bernard Heuvelmans to write the well-known book 'Sur la piste des b锚tes ignor茅es'(1955 Plon) and inspired his friend Herg茅 to create 'Tintin in Tibet'.(1958).
The envelope that you see in my picture did I find as an attachment in a copy of 'Tintin a t il 茅t茅 au Tibet'by Ronald Poelmeyer by a lucky chance because I had to pay only a few guilders for the little book.. It's from a bankruptcy.
The envelope has the name of 'Editions Lambiek' at the back.
I will feel favoured if the picture that I uploaded is accepted by WWII People's Team and ,not to forget, the Herg茅 Foundation. The picture shows two letters and an envelope that are related to my story on the personal page.(and the journal)
On the background you can see the letter of the 'Search Bureau Control Commission for Germany',d.d. 11 September 1945.
It is an answer to my father's request addressed to the British Red Cross. My father's parents informed him that repatriates thought that their son might probably be at Belsen. In the centre of the picture you can see a note of my uncle, happened upon by a villager on the 7th or 8th of September 1944 at 'Nuland Heide', a village called 'Geffen' nowadays, north of 's Hertogenbosch. It is my uncle's last sign of life that his family received a few days later by post. On the back of the envelope that carries the message, there is the name of the sympathic man that found the note along the rails. Last summer repatriates told me that there was a death-penalty ordered by the Germans on flinging aside notes from the train that evacuated them into Germany in 1944.
It will be difficult for you to read, my uncle writes :
'Dear all of you. We are evacuating ,destination not known, probably Oranienburg. I'm allright,I'll be safe. Cousin van Linthorst is also with us! See you soon ! Yours affectionately'

I translated this from the internet, the original is in French!
'Those tracks in the snow are no lost tracks ; the trace uncovers, step by step, where it heads for. ':

"From where and why so white
that fall that examines our steps and our provenance.
Does there exist any other fall
Having so little weight
and so much light? "

Jean-Michel Maulpoix

I'm not sure yet, but I found out that there was a man in his resistance-group called 'Uncle Linthorst'.(he was shot on the 19th of August at KZ Vught. I will have to investigate on this. )
I also heard from the repatriates that the Germans had planned to shoot all the prisoners of the SD-lager (my uncle was in the SD-lager in solitary confinement) but that they could not finish their work because of the rapid advancing Allied Forces early September 1944 in the south of the Netherlands. Once in Oranienburg a few of the prisoners already at the camp managed to burn and mingle the files.

p.s. Last spring we gathered at the Memorial at Margraten and President Bush honoured us . He came especially for us to commemorate with us V.E.-day. He called us friends (we take care of the graves of the American soldiers that are buried at the Cemetery), and he said that our mission, to protect the torch that was thrown to us by failing hands from falling, had failed. But that the strongest soldier is he who fights for his Freedom. (I think that he meant the soldier who defends 'probity' because : he has power over the soul.)
Earlier this year we were together in Vlaardingen. In our country the first who rebelled against the German occupier was this teacher Bernard Ijzerdraat from Schiedam. Already a few days after capitulation he wrote his first 'Geuzenbrief',a pamphlet in which he called up to withstand the foreign mastery. In our country we commemorate Bernard IJzerdraat and his resistance-group, who were betrayed and shot 13 March 1941,on the saturday closest to the 13th. In the church of Vlaardingen, this year's medal was presented to a special envoy of the Dalai Lama and the chairman of the International Campaign for Tibet, mr. Richard Gere. In his acceptance speech mr. Gere made a proposition for a 'secret pact'. We closed our eyes and we promised to do what we can to support the Tibetan People!
I did, didn't I?
You can read about the 'Geuzen':

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One more thing to say about my family, I'm sorry because I know that you are not going to like this, for me personally, saddest part of my story : My grandfather did not come to the wedding of my parents in 1952. But he wrote a letter. Using a typewriter.
In his typed wedding-speech my grandfather excuses himself for not attending to the wedding due to his voice and nerves that he writes, he has no longer under control since........................the war. I have often seen this letter when we celebrated the anniversary of our parents wedding-day when we looked at the album with the pictures of the wedding-day.
I never fully understood my grandfather's letter because I knew not much of my father's younger brother and because my grandfather had been suffering from multiple sclerosis ever since he was in his thirties. I remember my father told me that he feared for my grandfathers'life shortly after the war.
My father also told me that his brother didn't want to live any longer when he was taken to Germany and that he didn't eat the food that they gave him when I asked why his brother didn't come back from the war. I have believed these stories untill last year when I saw the 'Form of the Commision for Missing Persons' on the website of the Dutch 'Nationaal Archief'.
See for yourself :

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For this The Tintin-story Herg茅 might partly have been inspired by James Hilton's novel 'Lost Horizon'.
The novel, and later in 1937 Capra's movie, inspired the President of the U.S.A.
" 'Good for you' Roosevelt wrote Churchill after the vote on July 2, 1942. Roosevelt got away for the Fourth of July, paying his first visit to Shangri-la, a camp built by the Civilian Conservation Corps that the president had taken over as a retreat near Washington. To unwind, Roosevelt browsed through a copy of Jane's Fighting Ships." ( Franklin&Winston,Chapter 6 :I Think of You Often, Jon Meacham 2003, Random House Inc. New York)

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This will probably be my last entry. In fact there were two snowmen in the 20th century that are interesting to discuss. A Holy one and a filthy one. The prints of the first inspired JosephMaria Describa to 'the work of God' 'Opus Dei' of the Roman Catholic Church. The other one inspired the Belgian cartonist Herg茅 to sent his creations Tintin and Snowy to safe their Chinese friend Tchang who had crashed into the Shisha Pangma in 1958. The cartoon is very interesting because it describes a true story of compassion and friendship.
The American mountaineer Francis Farmer was lost while climbing the Kangchenjunga in 1929. Prof. Dr. Gunther Oskar Dyhrenfurth's Swiss Himalaya-expedition of 1930 went to look for him at the Abbey of Detsenroba. Many letters had been written by the mountaineer's mother ,mrs. farmer. She believed that her son was still alive and kept prison in the Abbey in the Yalung valley. And that he was waiting to be freed so he would return safe to his homeland.
James Hilton published his novel 'Lost Horizon' and more or less predicted a war that was to come already in 1933. The Holywood movie 'Lost Horizon ' by Capra(1937) might even have inspired F.D. Roosevelt to meet Winston Churchill to discuss the strategy to free Europe from Adolf Hitler in a resort called 'Shangri-La'. This place is called 'Camp David' nowadays. Anyway ; I think that I can say that the hope of Mrs. Farmer to see her son back ,alive and that he would return to her sooner or later, inspired many to write a story, and probably more than that, I think.
This reminds me of my promise!
'If the internal enemy of hatred is not tamed
When one tries to tame external enemies they increase
Therefore it is a practice of Bodhisattva's to tame their own continuum
By means of the soldiers of love and compassion.'
(Practice 20 out of 37 stanzas by the Bodhisattva Tok-may-sang-bo, 1245-1369)
The Kalachakra Tantra:Introduction by Jeffrey Hopkins p.44 ; Kalachakra Tantra Rite of Initiation

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