DISCARDED THINGS

Together with his friend Ernic Kamerich, René Scholten, my beloved for many years, used to organize a circus for children once a year, in the backyard at the Deurningerstraat in Oldenzaal. How old were they? Fifteen? Sixteen?

Ernic performed with Max, the Wonder Dog. René was the circus director and mainly concerned with technology. He had made a complicated switchboard that could be used to control sound and different lamps.

I kept it for years. What a job he must have had on it! How proud he must have been!

But overloaded with the things my mother left behind, I thought no, I’ll have to get rid of that.