About the Title ------ How to Say It - Neuer = Noise-se+er ------"A" as in ah, ge-dank-en-gang

What it means: - A New Way of Thinking, a New Path for my Thoughts .

Samstag, August 12, 2006

It takes my breath away!

Once again something amazing has fallen into my lap!

I found a book about Heinrich Huebsch, who was a well known architect and the older brother of Wilhelm who lived in Arkansas and wrote the letters I have studied and want to translate and publish. The author of the book acknowledged the help of Dr. Peter und Hella Huebsch in Freiburg. Well, Hella was the name of the person who had transcribed Wilhelm's letters from the handwritten originals and who wrote the forward and who had also worked with Ruth Rector from Arkansas to research the whole group of emigrants.

Hoping that it was the same person (and it seemed likely), I looked them up on a German version of Whitepages.com, and this site had a neat thing where you could send a postcard to the person whose address you found, and pay for it online. They then printed out the card and mailed it for you! So I did that - not expecting it to really work, but it did!

Today I got a letter from Hella Huebsch - she got my card and she is the same person, and she wonders how I got the letters, etc, etc, and she included her email address! She wrote in German because she assumed that I understood the language and that I would want to practice it, but she can also do English - I will write back to her in German, although that is part of what takes my breath away. That and the fact that the pieces of this project keep falling from the sky!

I have about decided that I am not ready yet for writing the grant application to the Humanities Council for this - there are just too many things stirring around that have to be done regarding the changes in my life situation for me to have time to work on the budget and the proposal. So I will probably wait until the February application cycle. Mostly I need to finish transcribing the letters into Word and refresh myself on the contents, because that is what will persuade people in Arkansas to support me in this project. But I am becoming more convinced that it is going to happen! And that also takes my breath away!

Just to report, the first week of being at least partially self-employed has gone well. I like the work in processing manuscripts, and I like not having to go to work every day! I managed for the most part to stay on task the days I didn't go to the library. And I like the idea of a four day weekend every week!

posted by Shirley Schuette @ 2:49 PM