Tag: moon
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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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Moon over Quarantine~
Great weather has been our blessing here in the North-Western part of Germany since the lockdown over Covid19 began a few weeks ago. Mild weather, Spring bursting with color, birds chirping loudly and clear skies that go on for miles. That all somehow seems to soften the blow of the sad news of death and…
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Day Two Hundred Seventeen, August 27, 2011
If I were to imagine a perfect place where I long to be when the world gets too noisy, and if I were to give it a color, it would most certainly be blue. Blue is soothing, calming, quiet, swirling, cooling, peaceful, deep, gentle… Yes, that is where I would dream of sailing, into the…
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Day One Hundred Sixty Six, July 7, 2011
When the silvery day prepares to meet the golden night there is a moment of magic. It is like a desperate lover’s embrace, a holding on, knowing that they must soon be separated again. And in that moment of passion, golden sparks fly, a stillness descends on all who witness this daily miracle. It is…
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Day Thirty, February 21, 2011
as above so below What a potent symbol, the circle! We live on a sphere, we receive daily warmth from a sphere, we have our nightly light from a sphere, we spin in our universe among other spinning spheres. And here on earth, you drop any liquid and it instantly forms itself into the most…
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Day Eleven, February 2, 2011
I am reading a book called Gilead, and in it I was moved by the character coming to the simple realization that the moon moves not in a circle around the earth, but in a spiral. I have always loved this contemplation of spirals in our universe and have loved to draw spirals repetitively. Today,…