Author Archives: Karin Quade

Autumn Day

12. November 2011 – 8:31

He who has no house now, will no longer build.
He who is alone now, will remain alone,
will awake in the night, read, write long letters,
and will wander restlessly along the avenues,
back and forth, as the leaves begin to blow.
Isn`t that beautiful? So beautifully sad … The last verse of one of my favorite autumn poems [...]

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1 and 1 is 1, 2 or 3?

07. November 2011 – 22:00

Yesterday I went to see “Anonymous”, the movie that raises the question whether Shakespeare did or did not write his famous plays. But these days the question that preoccupies me is not so much to be or not to be, but whether 1 and 1 is 1, 2 or 3.
Let me explain why:
Whenever an [...]

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The one percent movement

06. November 2011 – 19:26

If these “Occupy Wall Street” or “Occupy Frankfurt” people are really the 99 percent - which I strongly doubt -, I definitely do belong to the remaining one percent. Maybe we should create a movement of our own? The 1 % movement, how does that sound? Only problem: I have to be back at work [...]

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Air show in Traisa

16. Oktober 2011 – 14:17

What a beautiful air show to be watched from my house! Thank you sooo much :-)

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A candle of light

23. September 2011 – 20:11

… in a hall of darkness. Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations. - What an incredible speech! Rhetorically brilliant, very emotional, but most importantly true, so true, so very very true.
24. September 2011:
I wanted to post excerpts of his speech on my blog, but I ended up finding so many important passages that I [...]

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9/11 - ten years ago

11. September 2011 – 16:07

I am watching the memorial ceremony on CNN with tears in my eyes. It is heart-breaking to hear all these names being read. By mothers, fathers, daughters, sons who have lost their loved ones. Heart-breaking.
And I am so grateful to the ones that are out there to protect us all. Thank you!
Sad but true: [...]

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Up in the sky

17. August 2011 – 21:15

Beautiful! Thanks :-)

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Hallelujah!

01. August 2011 – 21:24

Just learning this line dance. Not so easy at all! These two already know how to dance it: HALLELUJAH line dance
This little girl is so cute, isn`t she?

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Up in the air

01. August 2011 – 21:12

I have seen you! You made my day :-)

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Very nice comments

17. Juli 2011 – 23:12

This weekend I received two real nice comments for my blog, and I wanted to allow them on my blog, but somehow I could not figure out how to allow these two while still having the comment section closed. So I did copy and paste and here they are. I know this might look as [...]

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