"Yesterday it rained a bit, today as well, but not for long." "From now on, I'll write from Hvar." "I don't know yet where I'll be staying." "I'd like so much to hear from you." "POSTCARDS" "I sent you a telegraph this morning and I hope you, too, got home well and healthy and that everything is fine." "I travelled confortably to Dubrovnik but not as well as to Sarajevo." "The train was noisy, shaking terribly." "Don't write to me up here." "I'll telegraph you my address again." "My darling hubby" " Dubrovnik is beautiful and we are having a wonderful time here." "I thought we'd find some mail here - but nothing." "Too bad!" "Tomorrow we're leaving early for Split, and on Wednesday evening we'll arrive at Plitvice." "Come and we'll spend the whole Thursday together..." "Sweatheart, I'm so stupid:" "every day I expect a word from you although I know it's impossible I could have received it even if you had responded on Wednesday at once." "I know you were tired from travelling, that our home is a mess and that you have a hard time writing." "This immense beauty awakens all senses in me so that I miss you a lot here." "Today, before departure I was on the small island Lokrum, not far from Dubrovnik." "A monastery, built there in 1020, was almost completely destroyed during an earthquake in the 17th century." "Later, Maximilian of Habsburg built himself a palace there and arranged a sub-tropical park." "It didn't bring him much luck either and the island is still believed to bring bad luck." "The weather is pretty good here, sunny and pleasant." "It was windy this morning but now, in the evening, it's really pleasant." "I'm sitting on a wonderful terrace after dinner, listening to the music far away, looking at the sea - only here and there a small light can be seen sliding away..." "It's beautiful." "But it would be even more if you were with me." "Here no one is alone..." "I think of you today and yesterday and tomorrow." "What are you doing, how do you feel at home and all." "This morning I dreamt of you, you were nice and you said you only came to say hello, but that you had to return immediately to the factory." "Ane, please write me a few lines so that I will get them when I return." "Will you?" "You will make me very happy." "Sweet good night and many warm kisses from your Mia." "Mia and Ane Velickovic Karlovac, The Podrinec factory" "Mister Aleksander Velickovic, the manager of the factory" "Mrs. Mia Velickovic, The shoe factory" "When all work is done, we'll also come here together with a lot of love and happiness in our hearts." "Not for long because I'd like to visit all these islands with you, all this places of old fame, even those" "I haven't seen yet, from Montenegro coast up to Susak." "Would you like that, dear?" "We'll work and save especially for this purpose and then there will have to be at least once enough vacation for you, too, when now for years it can't be even one day." "I wish you good health and be as peaceful and happy as I am." "Thousand sweet kisses." "I hug you and warmly kiss your gentle little eyes." "Your Mia." "It seems to me that I'm much better when I'm next to the sea." "I wish you were here with me so I could prove it to you." "Today is Tuesday, the weather is getting worse." "The sea is rough, the wind is blowing, but the sun is still very hot." "Even this must be, the end of October is here!" "With a sincere wish that you'll once enjoy yourself like I do now, unconcerned and peaceful." "God, already 5 days have passed since I saw you last." "Quickly passes what is only for us..." "Will I finally get some mail from you before Sunday?" "I hope so!" "For now bye-bye, my dearest, good night and rest sweetly every night." "Loves you, hugs you and faithfully thinks of you only, your beloved wife." "I'm leaving for the island of Hvar tomorrow." "The ticket costs 231 dinars, expensive, isn't it?" "In general I've spent a lot of money!" "This evening" "I bought a pair of shoes, pretty beautiful and good." "I took the lacquer ones for repair." "Some stupid shoemaker said they couldn't be repaired." "I was ashamed and angry." "I didn't search any longer;" "I hope I'll have more luck on Hvar." "From a park, through the branches, the Franciscan monastery can be seen, my Eldorado..." "If I were a man," "I'd take vows at once just so I could stay here." "After their stay on Hvar, they sent a 150 kg bell as a gift to a monastery." "They wrote that they wouldn't and couldn't ever forget this Madonna." "Greek inscription calls here:" "The hope of the hopeless." "The icon is so beautiful that it really can't be forgotten." "There are paintings by famous painters, there is a tomb of a poet Hanibal Lucic, there is a miraculous beauty." "A painting from the church - maybe it doesn't show here, but if you saw it the way I did" " I saw the expression of unsurpassable mother's pain on the face of Madonna, standing under the cross." "Every line is so delicately shaded - but differently than the pain of Maria Magdalena." "I can't describe it - you should have been here to see it yourself." "But most importantly - I was standing as if struck by lightening" " I couldn't move a bit." "In the reflectorium of the monastery is a painting by Matteo Roselli:" ""The Last Supper." I saw the painting by Leonardo da Vinci, but such a powerful impression, such an elation didn't take me over then." "This colours, these expressions, and then in this ambience." "Imagine a huge dining room with narrow tables on both sides and on the entire front-wall a painting, not a painting but living figures in natural size." "Jesus said: "One of you shall betray me", and then blesses St. John." "The other disciples asking each other:" ""Who, who shall betray Jesus?" You don't see that, you hear it, a secret question of horror is murmuring out of the painting:" ""Who, who shall be the traitor!" "?"" "He came to Hvar and asked for shelter which no one wanted to give him." "Wondering, he came to the Franciscans." "They received him and took care of him for 6 months, until he completely recovered." "To show his gratitude he painted this masterpiece and thus richly rewarded hospitality and care." "Ane, I am elated." "There are other paintings but that one surpasses them all." "It's so powerful, so truthful." "Maybe now I understand for the first time why the works of the old masters are so valued." "I walk a lot, I sit in the sun and I'm relaxing on the fresh air all day." "My watch stopped, I didn't wind it up, letting the time go the way it wants." "To me, these days will never be lost, never." "And for this, my dear, I have to thank you." "Your caressing touched my soul so deeply." "I feel so much" "I'm your child that I can't grow older." "We must always stay young for each other." "If God didn't give us children to spoil and to make us happy, then it depends on us to chase away dark clouds and gloomy days in our lives, that would diminish beauty and satisfaction." "Besides the football scandal, I hope you don't worry about anything too much." "And don't!" "Everything will still be all right and well." "The business can't fall in two days except if everything we believe in would collapse at once;" "and then it doesn't matter anyway." "And your "Yugoslavia"" "will yet take revenge on the Zagreb dandies!" "Every day has its day!" "Stay healthy and peaceful, my darling hubby, but above all be happy and well." "And dear, what are you doing in the evenings?" "You don't write me at all." "Do you go to a caf?" "or maybe to the movies?" "You completely ignored my threats without saying anything!" "?" "I love you, my dearest, I hug and kiss you all over." "I kiss your sweet little eyes and I'm all yours, Mia." "My dear Ane, I wanted to write you this postcard up on the hill where I was today." "But the wind was so strong that I couldn't." "The walk was fine." "I was at some little church and on the fortress and all around the hill." "I found a few more postcards for you." "I think the mail doesn't leave Hvar today so you won't even get my yesterday's letter that soon." "But I'd like my letters to be sent to you as fast as on the radio." "Even this will be possible in some 1000 years!" "I'm walking on this bare and rocky land which is also a little piece of my home country, dear and familiar." "I'm walking and I'm thinking how many ages have passed through them; how much sorrow, fame, greatness and poverty!" "The city walls have been standing for hundreds of years, protecting princes, gentlemen, protecting even the poor, only life itself for a poor man since he hasn't anything else." "Today they are only the pride and wonder upon wonders." "People come from all parts of the world, they admire the sea, rocks fortness." "Do they realize in their souls, as deeply as they should, all that has happened in these places throughout the centuries?" "Do they understand?" "Dear Ane." "Yesterday at noon I already received your postcard from Belgrade but not your promised letter." "As you know already, if I don't get a new room," "I'll leave at once." "I'll keep you informed about this." "On the postcard you see the agaves." "They bloom only once and when they fade away, they die " ""like those ones from the tribe of Asra, who die when they are loving."" "Strange is the world and beautiful." "I hope that men are better at writing, that's why I ask you to tell me some news." "We swim here every day in the sea." "It's very nice and pleasant to be in the company of delphins, a kind a fish you surely know." "Lots of love, Mia." "The Corso of Danube." "A memory from 1st of January 1944" "Roman-catholic church." "A memory from 1st of January 1944." "Ship berth." "A memory from 1st of January 1944." "From here to here I kiss your sweet gentle little eyes." "My sweet, sweet Ane!" "I love you for today, for tomorrow and forever and for as long as I live." "And I love you immensely." "So I fantasize:" "if I'd find a wallet with 20.000 dinars on the street," "I'd validate passport, I'd get on the train and ...brr-brr... fly to you." "Ah, would that be great!" "But imagine, no one wants to loose this wallet..." "Since I can't come to you, I think of you constantly instead and I hug you like I always do before falling asleep." "Bye-bye." "Mia." "Isn't it beautiful?" "When we win a large prize, we'll build ourselves the same kind of villa, won't we?" "I've already chosen the windows and doors from some ancient houses in out-of-the way places of Hvar." "When you get here I'll show you everything." "Bon?" "Loves you even without a house, your Mia." "The date" " I don't know Friday" "Postcards, found in an antique shop, were read by Violeta Tomic."