You can go to extremes with impossible schemes. You can laugh when your dreams fall apart at the seams. And life gets more exciting with each passing day. And love is either in your heart, or on it’s way. – Where do dreams end, where do they start? What does somebody do for whom the normal life, the normal job, the normal career – are just too normal?
Haus 2, 4th floor
A thousand miles away, there is a group of people getting together tonight because of Pádraig. They are meeting up in his favourite haunt. I am sure there is nothing in the world he would llke more than being right in the middle of it. And I am sure that the day will come when we will organize the biggest party the Conradh has ever seen! Tonight, while he cannot be there in person, he will be there with his friends in spirit.
Given the collapsed lung from 2 days ago and the subsequent small operation to put in a drainage to get his left lung back working properly, he was doing well today. Pat is back, having arrived to Hamburg following a 22-hour odyssey through hurricane-struck northern Europe. When she came, took his hands, and talked to him, he was clearly reacting to her arrival, and happy to have her by his side.
Seosamh and myself getting into Hamburg yesterday – joke. These are two ‘brave’ people somewhere in the north of Germany, trying to ‘hold-on’.
Last night, when we were waiting for Pat, getting note of one stopped and diverted train after another, a good old-but-young-at-heart friend of Pádraig and myself were talking the night away. It was the night of the Hamburg Hurricane and we knew that in coming decades people will be asking “and where were you at the night of the famous Hamburg hurricane?” I will never forget this night, as many of you will probably not forget tonight. Keep the energy going, because:
Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you if you’re young at heart. For it’s hard, you will find, to be narrow of mind if you’re young at heart. Pádraig will be right in the middle again one of these days. Our and his dreams will never fall apart at the seems.
Today’s German Music Tip
Die Ärzte, Lass die Leute Reden (2007). Check out the lyrics here.
Today’s non-German Music Tip
Tom Waits or Frank Sinatra (whoever you like better), Young at Heart. Written for the film of the same name, released in 1954, and sung by Frank Sinatra. Check out the lyrics.
What’s hot
Friends, friends, friends
What’s cold
Closed roads, closed bridges, snow storms
The German word/phrase/verse of the day
Land unter
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Hospi-Tales 
Just home (7am) from Oíche do Phádraig – I had to drive them from the place ”cos I was too tired and we had no-one else to close up the place.Some friends helped gather up the cans, bottles & glasses. More cleaning tomorrow (from 2pm). Brill night. Brill love. Brill vibe, brill beats – Smiley here – . Still young at heart!
Always, Seosamh, always. ¡Hasta siempre!