Anni - The Perfect Wisdom Web

a n n iclearly defined by my life-goal for the sake of this recognition.And just as you would not want to give up whatyou have recognized as right and important in your lifevocation,so too you would not want me to do anythingthat would be contrary to my life-goal.But apart from that we certainly do want to remainjust as closely bound to each other, parent to child andsibling to sibling, as we have been until now. For it wouldbe only a very weak love if it would wish to cease wherepaths diverge. It ought to be strong enough to respectdifferent paths, binding people to each other over andabove them, in order to perhaps bring them togethercompletely in the end.And so in this sense I greet all three of you very deeplyand with intense love, wishing so much that we mighteventually come to this very last thought.Your AnniSparhof, October 28, 1932My dear, good Mama and Hilde, dear Reinhold,You made me so very happy with the birthday parcel,so lovingly packed and thought out! Everything lookedso beautiful that I hardly dared open it. Many, manythanks! It also arrived exactly on my birthday. The littleflowers are still standing on my dresser. The birthday cakelooked so delicious. We devoured it the next afternoonwith the children and teachers at a very happy birthdaysnack. The day of my birthday was also very nice. Thechildren sang me a birthday song and Emi-Margret had214