As we navigate through life, many things occupy our minds: for example, a love that is gradually aging. Atmospheric disturbances among close friends due to thoughtlessly chosen words. Or arguing children who drive us adults to our last nerve. Rude people who don’t greet us when we meet them in the supermarket. One might dream of an implantable distance holder, allowing the strained soul to take a breather. Amelie Fechner masters in her poems the art of capturing everyday events and feelings so precisely that we find snippets of our own existence within them. She always focuses on the things that ultimately make life worth living: close friends who can ring the doorbell at three in the morning in an emergency. Or the colorful family life that, with all its ups and downs, is indeed the springboard for getting up each day. And the ability to enjoy life in the moment—by simply having toast with sunshine for breakfast and delighting in the beautiful day!.