Tag: pandemic
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Daily Coffee Talk~ 78/365
As Europe starts to gradually ease covid restrictions, I keep hearing talk of going back to our old normal, as if that is even possible! Having lived through this pandemic and all the changes that we have witnessed, how can we use the words ‘going back’? From here on, we can only move forward and…
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Daily Coffee Talk~ 55/365
Hi my friends, Lea’s quarantine ended today! We have a negative covid test and the birds are singing again in our neighbourhood. You don’t realise the importance of human contact till you go 10 days without it. We have been smiling a lot today, hugging and being silly. I am grateful for her recovery and…
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Daily Coffee Talk~ 54/365
Hi my friends, I remember a world with less restrictions, a planet without a pandemic, a state of affairs when most travelled freely, and a time when the world as it is today was inconceivable. And yet, here we are, at the end of an almost 3 year run at this virus’s stroll around our…
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Morning Coffee Talk~ 49/364
Good Morning, Sitting here at home and caring for my lovely daughter who is in quarantine with covid, I find time playing games with me. It goes fast, then very slow only to go fast again reminding me that I have absolutely no control over it. That is one of the natures of time, it…
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Morning Coffee Talk~ 47/365
Good Morning, I suppose it was inevitable and at some point Covid would come knocking on our door. There is a positive test in our home today so we will be in quarantine for the next 7 days at least. Luckily we live at a time when we can remain connected with loved ones, friends…
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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~ 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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Istanbul~ a 7 day Journey
Waking up on the second morning here in Istanbul to the sound of the call to prayer, a stark reminder of where I am, traveling again, exploring the amazing quirkiness of another culture and the inner worlds of other people. What first met me in Istanbul on this trip was incredibly unrelenting traffic jams, impossibly…