Category: contemplations
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Daily Coffee Talk~ 87/365
Today I saw a lot of children and young people enjoying the sun on a cold crisp day here in Germany and it made me think of this new generation. They have to deal with so much and to inherit a broken world lacking in hope and riddled with corruption and warp. The world today…
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Daily Coffee Talk~ 86/365
Have you every had the feeling that even when you are alone, you are really not? In my mind, there is never a dull moment. Thoughts, ponders, queries, hopes, questions, memories, investigations, plans, connecting of dots, and yes, sometimes fears and worries. I am finding it difficult to not be concerned about what is happening…
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Daily Coffee Talk~ 85/365
The world around us is always changing, every second could bring a new outcome, could cause a new future to onset. What are we in control of? Only our choices, in the now. Europe feels so turbulent at this time and that unsettlement, I feel echoed in me. I feel the shockwaves of the despair…
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Daily Coffee Talk~ 84/365
When we are confronted with life changing events or the possibility of them, we tend to go inward and see life more clearly. With the shocking onset of a war in an otherwise peaceful Europe, life becomes more real. Our senses are honed to feel, detect, and comprehend what is and might be going on…
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Daily Coffee Talk~ 80/365
If we were robots, designed to be born, to live a span of life and then die, then life would have been a straight line of non-events. But life is not like that and being human is so much more complex that straight lines are overtaken by curves. I often thought About how when you…
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Daily Coffee Talk~ 79/365
As long as I remember, when I still lived in Lebanon, my father would sit by the fireplace at our home at the foot of the mountain and on cold days continuously feed wood to the hungry fire and watch its raging flames and listen to its crackling sounds as it vanished into ashes. It…
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Daily Coffee Talk~ 77/365
Sometimes my mind goes back to when I was a small child and I can for a split second reconnect to a time of pure joy. Those were moments when all that existed was the present. Time had a different nature to it. It did not threaten me with the future or blame me for…
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Daily Coffee Talk~ 76/365
When you have a few words to say, and you let the words fade, you are happy to be blank, to be in the moment, where words are not necessary. Such is being inside the domain of art.
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Daily Coffee Talk~75/364
There must have been a time when humans were born on this planet with a clarity of purpose and a constant awareness of purpose for this journey we find ourselves on. It feels that something has occurred to cause a derailment of the human story, sometime, somehow, we took a wrong turn and we find…