Silence and Peace

There are few places today where you can retreat from the noisy daily life. One of these places are churches – and especially those old churches built some hundred years ago. I like to sit there on one of these wooden benches (not very comfortable, but you are not supposed to relax there), and have [...]

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Art on the Ceiling

With my fellow employees I visited the Monastery of Zinna in the Mark Brandenburg, a region 1 and a half hour by bus away from Berlin. In the Middle Ages it was a very known monastery, inhabited by cistercian monks. They were known for their simple life, nothing but work and pray (Ora et labora [...]

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Friendly Waters

Last year, during my holidays in Denmark, I loved to sit and watch the harbour. Not only the harbour, where the big ferries from Norway or Sweden arrived and set off again, but also the marina with their sailing boats in all sizes. There is always some activity, somebody cleaning the boat, or bathing in [...]

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In the Neighbourhood

In older times, wells were the places where women met: they had to fetch the water from the well and often enough this was an opportunity to have a nice talk with the neighbour.
Where do we meet today? Around the copier in the office, waiting in the queue? Or talking about how this wonderful thing [...]

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Guest Post on Fresh Focus

I am no productivity expert, but having a full time job and thus blogging in my free time I am keen on becoming more productive. I am working with to-do-lists, but very often at the end of the day there are still too many items on that list. I thought about ways to solve the [...]

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What I learned from a good friend

Most of my really good friends are women, and most of them are freelancers. Not always because they wanted it to be from the beginning, but because they are unemployed – although all of them are highly qualified persons.
I am lucky. I have a job. It is not the job I have been trained for, [...]

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The Early Bird and the Gold

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FireSky, originally uploaded by Karey46.
There is this proverb: The Early Bird catches the Worm. I am no early bird, I must admit. And when I am forced to be one, I definitely won’t be able to catch any worm. It takes me quite a time to get into working mode. That’s one of the reasons [...]

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