Tag: germany
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Morning Coffee Talk~24/365
Good Morning, It’s cloudy here in North West Germany with clouds threatening to rain, and all feels ready to make a pause. Families are doing their last minute shopping and preparing for dinners at home with cozy lights, Christmas trees and gifts that get opened this evening. You can feel and see the excitement of…
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Morning Coffee Talk~ 23/365
Good Morning, Do you remember travel? We used to travel a lot more on planes, trains, cars and boats. These days, it’s getting so complicated to plan, prepare for and make the actual journey. I am planning to travel this coming week and suddenly so many considerations enter the equation. Keywords get highlighted in my…
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Morning Coffee Talk~22/365
Good Morning, This morning feels like a strong sense of new possibilities is here, something that never happened before wants to happen, and the invitation is there to be with it and help it exist. I think that being human on the planet is the best and worst of all. I say that because every…
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Morning Coffee Talk~ 21/365
Good Morning, Today the Winter Solstice takes place at 10:59 local time here in Germany. Our beautiful planet will start to swing her hips back the other way and tilt her axis to begin our journey into longer days. We start the astronomical winter today and changes are expected to happen, well because they actually…
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Morning Coffee Talk~ 20/365
Good Morning, Every morning I wake up with a small excitement about what the new day may be bringing. This sense of unknown is there no matter how pre-planned the day or week is. Some part of it is never up to us, an unexpected event, an unusual encounter, a strange weather phenomenon, a rainbow,…
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Morning Coffee Talk~ 19/365
Good Morning, If you celebrate Christmas, you must be counting down at this point to the event next Friday. Here in Germany, some of the cities like Duesseldorf are lucky to have their Christmas markets still open despite the rising Covid-19 numbers, but with restrictions. At this point the change and strangeness of the pandemic…
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Morning Coffee Talk~18/365
Good Morning, It is winter in this part of the world and everyone spends a large part of their day indoors, seeing the world through window panes. How much of our lives is actually lived behind such barriers, in our cars, homes, schools, offices, airplanes, buses… It feels like we see the world and the…
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Morning Coffee Talk~ 16/365
Good Morning, Time and time again, I dwell on the concept of ‘time’. It’s time for ‘time’ one more time, and how many times are enough times.Well just maybe one more time. Time passes slow when things are difficult, fast when they are joyful, time heals our wounds and time can be endless when we…
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Morning Coffee Talk~7/365
Good morning, it’s a little after 6 am. I love the early morning, the smell of the first cup of coffee, the calm that envelopes the world around me, the promise of the first light to come reminding me that I live on a spinning sphere, a mind boggling fact on its own. My thoughts…
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Morning Coffee Talk ~ 6/365
Good Morning! It is December 6th, and in this part of the world, a very important visitor appears to bring the Christmas spirit to children around Germany. Nikolaus (who is not Santa), but a (Sankt Nikolaus or der Heilige Nikolaus), who was probably born around 245 C.E. in the port city of Patara in what we…