Dear Aliens,
A warm welcome and happy landing here in Liechtenstein! We look forward to your arrival and can well understand why you want to visit our small and peaceful country, which has no army… since 1868!
It's a pity you didn't come sooner. Until two years ago, you could have landed right here on this meadow in front of our house. Of course, we would have asked the cows for landing permission.
Since four large houses have now been built on this meadow, we've been looking for an alternative landing spot for you and received some great tips from a donkey family that grazes on another neighboring meadow.
Actually, your spaceship would have had enough room to land and park there. But because one of the female donkeys is heavily pregnant, the donkeys—both big and small—ask for your understanding that they cannot accommodate guests at the moment.
The expectant mother needs their undivided attention and affection!
My husband Adam and I have often found that donkeys have given us wise and valuable advice. We're also impressed by their fundamental approach to life. Donkeys only obey commands when they're fully convinced of their purpose. And they teach their young to follow this same principle.
Their tip for us and for you on the best place to land: “Just follow the drawings and signs on the road!” So we followed these drawings on the street, one of which shows a spaceship in the sky above a house and a little girl lying in a meadow and looking up… and we found ourselves near a very special otherworldly building…
We learned from the neighbors that a spaceship had landed here many decades ago and, due to technical problems, was unable to continue its journey, which is why the crew opened a very popular kindergarten. “Become like children”—that is the message of salvation from Jesus Christ. The artist Henri Matisse advised: “One must view life through the eyes of children.” And the artist Pablo Picasso observed: “Every child is an artist. The problem is, remaining an artist as one grows up.” That is what Adam and I strive for when we write stories and create images.
You need not fear technical problems: we own an original CURTA calculator complete with instruction manual, made in Liechtenstein, invented by Curt Herzstark in a concentration camp during World War II. He survived, came to Liechtenstein… lived in my parents' house for a while and played chess with my father after work.
Let's start the Countdown for your Landing!!
3 · 2 · 1 · 0 — wow!