July
2007: Romy Helene is born after a five-hour-stay at the hospital.
Luckily an uncomplicated birth, but nevertheless a struggle enough for
a mother.
In
October, Marie brought home a peculiar souvenir from
the kindergarten: an infection with one of the most ugly bacteria when
little children and old people are affected. Half of the children fell
ill, the kindergarten was closed by local health administration for
some days. At home, little Romy caught the tiny intruders, and when she
kept vomiting we sent her to hospital for intravenous nutrition. She
checked out after five days when her symptoms had disappeared and she
was able to drink by herself again as usual. Six months later on,
repeated bacteriological tests showed that salmonella group d had
disappeared from her intestines.
What a mess!
This is
an instrumental description of the weeks from
the first own step to safe walking. Between them you pass weeks of
exercise with more or less unsteady steps that gain safety only slowly.
First
thought about as an overture to this CD, the
title song stands for our little community as some kind of a hymn. We,
at least we big ones, have the feeling when we four are together,
without any other related or unrelated people around us, we do best. We
hope, our children got the same feeling.
Dedicated to Sandra.
A song
written in expectance of a possible change
concerning the place of work.
Saturday
morning, through busy streets to the shopping
centre and back again. Sometimes you are driven together with other
people like lemmings, on the way back you swim against the stream.
Little
Marie had five little toy rabbits. For a while
she did not want to go to sleep or to wake up without them. Meanwhile
they are out of mode, and they passed over to Romy´s bed.
The evening is the finest time
after a long day. The
kids just gone to bed, a glass of red wine, the first talk with one
another without being disturbed by the little monsters. Time to be near
to the beloved, time to read a book, time to compose.
Thanks to Sandra, Marie and Romy.
Thanks
to
Apple
Jam
Packs
and AMG
loops for GarageBand.
Compositions,
arrangements and design by The maier Project.
© 2007 by THE MAIER
PROJECT. ALL
RIGHTS RESERVED.
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