Tag: planet
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Morning Coffee Talk~48/365
Good Morning, So for those of us who think we are sitting at home or standing still, ponder this: Our planet is spinning around its axis at a speed of 1000 miles/ hour It is also rotating around the sun at a speed of 67,000 miles/ hour and our Milky Way is spinning around at…
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Morning Coffee Talk~ 34/365
Good Morning, Starting late today but it’s morning somewhere. I chose to spend another day today at the expo and visit some of the pavilions. There is so much to take in at an event like this that you need to stand still sometimes and assess what the significance of all of it is .…
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Morning Coffee Talk~ 31/365
Good Morning, Tonight we say goodbye to 2021 and walk into 2022 with caution and wonder at what it might be holding. The intense events seem to be getting only more intense, the uncertainty less certain but the hope and wonder is always there. Hope is there in the first moment we open our eyes…
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Morning Coffee Talk~26/364
Good Morning, Every year since my daughter was a small child, we visited this forest near the town of Xanten in Germany. This year was no exception. I always walked with her there and upon arrival we stopped and took a moment to greet the forest. One hand on a tree and she still recognises…
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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~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~ 11/365
Good Morning, When you are like me and you love exploring this planet and learning about its inhabitants, then some places haunt you for years after you visit them. One of these places is Varanasi in India. You probably have heard of Varanasi, its floods of pilgrims, swamis, holy men and women, the river Ganga…
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Morning Coffee Talk~2/365
This morning I woke up with thoughts of ‘repetition’. How life here on this spinning planet demonstrates this continuously, from the sun rising daily, to our constant heartbeat, the seasons, our in-breath and out-breath, day and night,… it’s all around us. I will share a short writing from a few weeks ago: We, humans are…