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Audiostretto 59/4/24 English

Hans-Jörg Stark

Audiostretto 59/4/24 is a daily podcast with an encouraging impulse for the day. Because many people today have little time in a day with a full agenda, this input is a maximum of 59 seconds long. So it"s analogous to a ristretto: short, strong and invigorating. 59 seconds for 24 hours!

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00:01:17

Visibility

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/10/20

In the morning, you can see how moisture has settled on the grass or an object that has been outside overnight. If you walk over grass on a cool autumn morning, you will very quickly have wet shoes. The moisture in the air, which is not visible per se, condenses on the blades of grass due to the lower temperatures and thus becomes visible. The same happens in the sauna or when you take a hot shower at home. So there is something that is invisible to us but nevertheless present and a medium that

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00:01:21

Nervousness

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/10/19

We all know nervousness. It's a very intense feeling that feels very special, incomparable. It has something of an inner tension and is often triggered by uncertainty or perhaps even fear of what is to come. Sometimes it is also called stage fright. What is interesting about nervousness, however, is that it leads my perception to a strong focus. Focus on the trigger of this state. It becomes difficult to concentrate on anything else in this situation and you have to make a conscious decision to do

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00:01:20

Above

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/10/18

Our autumn fair is coming up soon and balloons will be sold along with many other things. They look different today than they did when I was a child. Back then there were only round balloons, which differed only in colour and print. Today there are the classic ones - albeit rather rare - and then many modern ones made of aluminium and in almost infinitely different variations as animals, mythical creatures, symbols etc. What they all have in common is that they are filled with helium and therefore

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00:01:17

Cohesion

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/10/17

In my childhood, Velcro fasteners were used to close trainers. So instead of having to tie your shoes, you could simply use a Velcro fastener - great for children who had trouble tying their laces. But the effect was still not the same. Tying the shoes was better, the shoe held better and so this technology did not last. Apart from that, a tied shoe also looks nicer than a Velcro fastener. With the laces, however, it can be tedious if the cord unravels at the ends. That's why they often have a

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00:01:23

Angle

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/10/16

You've probably noticed it when you've opened or closed a window: depending on the opening angle, you can see through the window and recognise what's outside - or inside, if you're looking from the outside. Or then the reality of this world is reflected in the window and you recognise more of a mirror image or sometimes, very rarely, a kind of combination of mirror image and view. However, this is rare and you must be able to interpret it well with your eyes. Either way, the example shows that the

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00:01:18

Left

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/10/15

I really enjoy spending time in a small park nearby. For me, it's a kind of mini urban oasis where there's space for nature, where no traffic is actually allowed, with a few exceptions, and where fortunately there aren't very many people. The other day I came across an elderly gentleman smoking his tobacco pipe. As the park allows you to walk in circles, i.e. do a kind of lap, I passed the spot where I met him again after a while. The smell of his tobacco pipe was still in the air. I didn't see him

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00:01:21

Tunnel

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/10/14

TunnelIn the natural world, a tunnel is a place of transition. In the mountains, for example, from one valley to another or a path through solid natural material. In a figurative sense, a tunnel is often the image of a difficult time when life doesn't mean well for you, when you have to endure something difficult and you can't see the daylight, the sun. Nobody wants that. This is intensified in our hedonistic society and therefore suppressed wherever possible. But if you look at the natural world,

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00:01:19

Thermals

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/10/13

Thermals Are you one of the brave ones who have ever flown with a paraglider? I've only heard that it must be a tremendous experience. I don't know if I would have the courage if I had the opportunity to try it out. But what I think I have understood is that you need to know the current thermal conditions in order to fly well. By that I mean where certain air masses are active and how active they are. Cold and warm air have a lot of effects when they meet and, depending on the temperature

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00:01:17

Notes

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/10/12

Notes Are you one of those people who still take notes with pen and paper? When I was at school, this was the only and usual way to take notes when the teacher spoke and taught us the subject matter. Later in my professional life, we also had writing pads or notebooks to take notes when talking to customers or to discuss, record, sketch etc. what we had discussed. Today, if at all, this can be done digitally on a mobile device, sometimes with a so-called digital pen. The notes from the past - I

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00:01:20

Beginnings

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/10/11

Autumn is the time of harvest. Many fruits ripen during this time and the bright colours are once again a tremendous natural spectacle and firework of life before winter comes and with it a period of rest. Ripe fruit is super tasty. We look forward to them in most cases and we don't just have them in our fruit bowls as decoration. However, it often happens with ripe or overripe fruit that it can develop mould in certain damaged areas. This mould then spreads and destroys not only the affected

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00:01:20

Practical

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/10/10

We live in a culture, a time and a country in which we often seek not only the optimal and expedient, but the best possible. This also has its good points and speaks in favour of the quality standards we have on the one hand, but also of our possibilities on the other: that we have resources at our disposal that allow us to achieve the best possible results. However, as mentioned, this is not always expedient. Suppose - as an allegory - you want to do something that only a few people should see

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00:01:22

Box

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/10/09

Box You've probably already sent something by post, i.e. a parcel. Boxes are extremely practical. You can open them at the top, insert the items to be sent, pad them a little if necessary so that the goods are not thrown back and forth and they are easy to seal. The parcels are also convenient for transport organisation: they are easier to stack than bags or large padded sacks or envelopes. So everything speaks in favour of the box. But beware: the size of the box is only one thing that is relevant

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00:01:19

Nutshell

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/10/08

Nutshell The Latin expression ‘in nuce’ - i.e. literally ‘in a nut’ - means: summarised, in essence, the core message. If you take this image and think about it further, you realise that the kernel of a nut is not so easily accessible. There is the hard shell that protects the kernel well and breaking it open without destroying or damaging the kernel is not so easy and requires - at least from us humans - a certain amount of dexterity and possibly even suitable tools. These days, we are surrounded

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00:01:15

Handrail

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/10/07

Well, talking about steps... There are some that are really comfortable to walk on and others that don't fit my stride length or height. Some of them are very shallow steps where I don't know whether I should take an intermediate step or a really big one. Others are so steep that I feel a fear of falling when descending these stairs. There are handrails to counteract this insecurity. In other words, a structure at the edge of the stairs that you can hold on to. You don't have to, but it provides a

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00:01:18

Baywatch

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/10/06

There was a TV series Baywatch from US with well-known actors. Whether this series is good or bad remains to be seen. But in most of the photos from this series, you can see lifeguards with a kind of red boye with which they rescue drowning people from the sea. I imagine that these buoys are light, filled with air and so stable that they can neither break nor be injured by sharp objects. Presumably filled with air, they have so much buoyancy in the water that a drowning person can hold on to them

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00:01:13

Pergola

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/10/05

By definition, a pergola is a porch or extension and originally served as a sunshade in the transitional area between the house and terrace. This makes it possible to be outside and enjoy the warmth and fresh air without having to fear the strength of the sun. So two things can be combined: Protection from dangerous UV rays and being outdoors and breathing fresh air. Protection and freedom - not something that many people in this world take for granted these days, or indeed throughout the history

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00:01:18

Banana skin

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/10/04

When we went to the zoo as children, I had certain favourite animals. These included the elephants. They were so big and yet somehow they radiated a peaceful calm. Another factor was perhaps that they were fed with fruit and today we would say they were vegetarian. So no other animal had to lose its life because of them, as was the case with snakes, for example. At that time, I also noticed that the elephants ate the fruit - such as a banana - just like that, with everything: the fruit including

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00:01:24

Strawberries

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/10/03

As children, we went with our parents to large strawberry fields when the strawberries were ripe and were allowed to pick strawberries ourselves. At home, we made delicious cakes and jam and the like from them. These ripe fruits were also very delicious to eat straight from the bush - which was allowed. They were incomparably better than the packaged fruit you get in the supermarket. Strawberries have relatively small seeds in their skin, which are hardly noticeable when you eat them. However,

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00:01:26

Pasta

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/10/02

PastaThere are different types of pasta: spaghetti, spaghettoni, linguini, maccheroni, capellini, fettuccine, pappardelle, tagliatelle, bavete and many more. And this also includes farfalle. In our language, we call them Krawättli, or little ties. The name actually means butterflies. But we just call them Krawättli. The interesting thing about them is that they have nothing to do with a tie, big or small. They are much more similar to a bow tie, i.e. the bow tie for men's shirts. Nevertheless

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00:01:16

Behaviour

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/10/01

In the animal kingdom, there are animals that make themselves very small when in danger or go into rigor mortis in order to be virtually invisible or uninteresting to the attacker. Once the danger is over, they wake up again and return to life. This type of behaviour also occurs in humans from time to time, but usually doesn't really help. If we hide from danger or threats, especially if they are not really caused by an external aggressor as in the animal kingdom, the threat does not go away by

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