{"id":2352,"date":"2013-10-26T23:35:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T21:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kerstinpur.de\/?p=2352"},"modified":"2025-02-04T10:20:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T09:20:35","slug":"life-discovery-words-sounds-drops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/leben-entdecken-worte-toene-tropfen\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover life: Words, sounds, drops"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/a><\/strong>Was I alive today?<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/strong>Yes!!! (Even if I was a bit tired, a bit of a mess and a bit of a dawdler at times).<\/strong><\/p>\n

What new things have I discovered about life?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s the tone that conveys the meaning.<\/strong> As I was cycling home today after a lovely birthday party, I saw a young man sitting in a pile of leaves by the side of the road. As people don\u2019t usually do that, I called out, \u201eIs everything all right?\u201c He called back, \u201eNo,\u201c but his voice sounded so clear and cheerful. And the road was going slightly downhill, so I had some momentum. I stopped at the next set of traffic lights \u2013 and he came running after me (500 metres!) and asked, \u201eDid you mean that question seriously?\u201c I said, \u201eYes!\u201c He asked why I hadn\u2019t stopped then. I explained it to him and said, \u201eYou can run really fast, though!\u201c He said, \u201eWell, you have to with you!\u201c Then he asked where I was from and what I was up to this evening\u2026<\/p>\n

I found it fascinating that \u2013 even though he\u2019d shouted something else \u2013 I intuitively sensed that he was all right: a man who can run a few hundred metres behind a woman on a bike \u2013 whom I find attractive \u2013 can\u2019t be doing too badly. I was relieved that my assessment had obviously been correct; I trusted the tone more than the words.<\/p>\n

And: Penguins have a highly effective heat-exchange system in their feet (the things you learn along the way when you\u2019re working on domestic and heating systems for ships)<\/p>\n

What new things have I discovered about myself?<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>\"2013-10-26<\/a><\/strong>Little things can bring me great joy. And a single drop can have very different effects \u2013 depending on where it lands. Today, a care parcel arrived from a former seminar participant (thanks, H.!) containing some really lovely ear protectors, chocolate, tissues and a lovely hand cream. Compared to the huge bills of the last few weeks (and those still to come), this is a drop in the ocean. Barely noticeable. Yet at the same time, that drop has fallen into my barrel of gratitude and made it overflow. The gift, and the appreciation and care it expresses, has kept me feeling happy and grateful all day long. A good drop is truly worth its weight in gold!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

War ich heute lebendig? Ja!!! (Wenn auch zeitweise m\u00fcde, matsche und vertr\u00f6delt).<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,643],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leben-meistern-swing","category-schiff-kerstin-hack"],"featured_image_data":null,"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"Leben meistern - Swing"},{"value":643,"label":"Schiff und Auszeit an Bord"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Kerstin Hack","author_link":"https:\/\/63cfd2629054c8f4hack.de\/en\/author\/63cfd2629054c8f4\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"Leben meistern - Swing","slug":"leben-meistern-swing","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":552,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":552,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Leben meistern - Swing","category_nicename":"leben-meistern-swing","category_parent":0},{"term_id":643,"name":"Schiff und Auszeit an Bord","slug":"schiff-kerstin-hack","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":643,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":214,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":643,"category_count":214,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Schiff und Auszeit an Bord","category_nicename":"schiff-kerstin-hack","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"ase":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45532,"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions\/45532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}