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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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00:01:13

Timeless

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2025/01/07

Almost everything that affects our lives is subject to the dimension of time. As far as I know, everything has a beginning and an end. Even radioactive radiation with its long half-life. So our actions, thoughts, feelings and plans are all subject to time. What if it weren't so? It's hard to imagine how different everything would be. The order, the sequence of events would not be the same as it is today. Certain things could happen before others and yet with or after them. Dimensions that limit us

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00:01:09

Apple tart

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2025/01/06

When my father was in charge of lunch, we often had fruit-pies. Pies in general can be topped with various fruits and we often had apples. Interestingly, I still like it to this day. It's different with other dishes. I'm a bit over them because I had them too much in my childhood. Not with apple pies It's the same with good habits. With age comes maturity, hopefully a little more wisdom, and you learn - or should learn - to distinguish between what is good and what is not. What you should keep and

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00:01:17

Worlds

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2025/01/05

It's exciting what you can do with language that doesn't exist in reality. For example, siblings are called brother and sister in German. But you could also make a feminine form of brother using the rule that applies to other nouns. So, by analogy with farmer and farmer's wife, it would be brother and brother's wife. Although this formulation is gramatically correct it has a different meaning. Another example is the word world. There is only one world, but we still know the plural form worlds

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00:01:15

Snowman

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2025/01/04

I don't think there's anyone who hasn't made a snowman - or, to be gender-appropriate, a snowperson. Except those who have never been in contact with snow. Making snowmen is fun and you can be really creative. But we all know that snowmen only last while it's cold enough. When it gets warmer, they melt away, disappear, are no longer there, and no one can see that they were ever there. King David prays in Psalm 103: A man is like grass in his life: he flourishes like a flower in the field. When the

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00:01:20

Trust

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2025/01/03

We all find ourselves in tricky situations from time to time. Whether consciously or unexpectedly. We may feel under pressure or insecure, wondering what the right thing to do is, what the right thing to say is, what the right thing to keep quiet about is, etc. Such moments can occur at work, when dealing with clients, superiors or colleagues, in the family, in relationships or perhaps even in court. Even if you know in advance that these moments are coming, the possibility of preparation is

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00:01:19

Renunciation

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2025/01/02

Maybe you are like me: I have a very spontaneous, emotionally driven opinion about certain things. For example: I may or may not like a brand logo, product design or other offering, or I may or may not identify with a brand or product manufacturer. And the stronger this identification, the more likely I am to buy a product - even if I don't necessarily need it or if, rationally speaking, there are better products in a price-performance comparison. So which is better? To follow my feelings, which

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00:01:15

Understanding

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2025/01/01

Most of us can read. This is an enormously important skill and competence because it enables communication that is inaccessible to illiterate people. However, we may be able to read texts but not understand them. This may be because we are not familiar with the language in which it is written, which uses the same letters, or because the content is about something unknown to us. So we have the ability to read, but not the ability to understand. You need both. It's the same with us in everyday life:

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00:01:16

Cutlery

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/12/31

Most of us learned to eat with cutlery as children. First the food is portioned and the child picks it up with their hands and eats it. Then comes the spoon, and later the knife and fork. In Asian regions, chopsticks are still used. But I am not aware of any other utensils or types of cutlery. I find this interesting because there seems to be a kind of global consensus in this area. Across cultures and borders. Of course, in some places people only eat with their hands, but where cutlery is used,

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00:01:24

Fur

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/12/30

Animal skins are of interest to humans because, after tanning, they can be used as their own protection against the elements. Humans themselves, depending on where they live in the world, are not sufficiently protected from the outside world. However, they do not naturally have the same protection as animals. While many animals develop appropriate protection against external influences according to their habitat - I am thinking of the fat layer of penguins or the armour of rhinos, etc. - humans are

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00:01:22

Eyelashes

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/12/29

Our eyes normally have about 150 to 250 hairs between 8 and 12 mm long on the upper part of the eye and 50 to 150 hairs between 6 and 8 mm long on the lower part of the eye. The eyelashes. They fall out every 4 to 6 weeks and are therefore renewed. Their main function is to keep dust, foreign objects and bright sunlight out of the eyes. They therefore have a protective function - and for some, an aesthetic one, in the sense of an ideal of beauty. Depending on health conditions or treatment, these

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00:01:15

Truth

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/12/28

When a job application is rejected, you often get a response like the following: 'Thank you for your application and your very interesting CV. You have a lot of experience for this job. However, we have received other applications that fit the profile even better, so unfortunately we have to turn you down. This all sounds very nice and appreciative. But if you're really honest, it's often not true. It is often not true that you have the required skills for the job, and the CV is not always as

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00:01:15

Venetian blinds

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/12/27

Blinds are fitted to windows to protect them from bright light. There are different types: for example, slat blinds, which, depending on how far they are lowered, have small gaps between the light-tight slats, allowing some light to pass through until they are completely closed. Or there are fabric blinds, which are continuous and have no slats, but are often translucent at the edges or made of a fabric that is not completely light-tight, so that some light remains in the room behind them. Blinds

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00:01:19

Too late

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/12/26

We've all been in a situation where we've been told 'too late'. It happens to me sometimes at the station when I can't make the connection because my train is so close and by the time the first train is late, the second has already left. These are external events over which I have no control. But there are also self-inflicted delays. I plan badly or simply forget things, appointments, etc. And when I do remember them - well, it's too late, they've already happened. Unrealistic - this is sometimes

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00:01:17

The torch

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/12/25

Every four years, athletes around the world celebrate the Olympic Games. They are preceded by the Olympic torch relay. This is a modern invention inspired by ancient Greece. It heralds the start of the Olympic Games and sends a message of peace and friendship along its route. It was first organised for the 1936 Summer Games in Berlin. It says a lot: an inhuman, authoritarian, despotic political system disguises itself with an act of peace and friendship. The question quickly arises: peace and

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00:01:21

Equal

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/12/24

In the darker months of the year, there are things that we only use during these weeks. Things like running the heating or wearing a down jacket. This also includes lighting candles. Especially during Advent, but also in the first months of a new year. Candlelight is something special. More than just light, more than just a small source of warmth. There is something metaphysical about it, and I feel that in front of such a candle I somehow become a child again, or come into contact with childlike

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00:01:15

Fields

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/12/23

As a city kid, I didn't grow up with the realities of farming, so I only know a lot about it from hearsay or from books and films. I know that in the past, cattle or horses were used for field work, especially ploughing, and that they carried a yoke to which the plough was attached and did the work of ploughing. The farmer would harness the animals under the plough and let them pull it. As we go through life as human beings, it is not uncommon for it to involve strenuous work: coping with everyday

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00:01:18

Shape

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/12/22

When I was young, there were strong opinions about bachelors and their domestic skills - or lack thereof. The most they were generally thought to be able to do was cook a fried egg or heat up a tin of ravioli. But still. I still think a fried egg is fine, even though my cooking repertoire is much wider. Nowadays you can make a fried egg in many different ways, and not just as an egg in a hot pan. There are various moulds that are placed in the hot pan and then the raw, beaten eggs are poured into

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00:01:26

Computer Games

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/12/21

I belong to the generation that has been able to follow the development of computer games. In the beginning, you could only play very simple games that couldn't show upright, real-looking objects because of the low resolution of the screens. You could play Tetris or Pacman or other games. One of these games involved shooting down enemy spaceships flying towards you. If you managed to fight your way through the onslaught of enemies, you would advance to the next, more difficult level. Otherwise you

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00:01:18

Overwhelmed

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/12/20

In our everyday language, the term 'overwhelmed' is often used in a positive sense. You are surprised, far beyond what you could have imagined or imagined, and therefore perhaps speechless or simply utterly grateful. Overwhelmed in the real sense means that something or someone has defeated you, overpowered you. You have lost a battle, so to speak, or you have had to surrender, realise that something or someone is stronger. This is then expressed in the corresponding feelings at such moments. More

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00:01:27

Strange

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/12/19

Many people like to travel. They enjoy travelling to other cultures, getting to know other people and their countries, customs and languages, and enjoying the differences from their own everyday environment. In particular, other foods and their preparation and menus that we are not familiar with. These are all positive aspects. But then there is the term 'foreign'. Something or someone is foreign to me. And this often means I don't understand him or her, or no longer understand him or her. It is

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