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Speaker 3: In this episode, we'll uncover the quiet revelations of a
Speaker 3: winter retreat, where the silence of the Dutch countryside led
Speaker 3: to unexpected connections and creative awakenings for two souls in
Speaker 3: search of themselves.
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Speaker 1: The snail filsurches opddlabaumval spirituve tret sentrum in rusted platalons
Speaker 1: het vosvinter and de velt leke predict mede still vitedig
Speaker 1: sona stopped out warmer Hofthal, the cou de l'udin teveelsaar
Speaker 1: adams a volker, the fooled as if forlora naw in
Speaker 1: yar false dress and ronseacre head, the retretta hot stilt,
Speaker 1: the beloved is zort by the stilt braught out the
Speaker 1: stemmer in har hof nabov boss, the veive deer trijav
Speaker 1: re willeher and ospirants Riefer had sent Tago von dach
Speaker 1: over slaugher he wil the Inspirazi findy in the outer
Speaker 1: boss of hondomatsentrum in plants from the routinose baser headed
Speaker 1: from the retretta, theen romonni they come knat from the hound,
Speaker 1: and I hoped that the naturhem for halaknhaved di herself
Speaker 1: need combdenka the stilta from the the tretta was often
Speaker 1: too under broken door fair he loud from care clocker
Speaker 1: and her innering at anstanders in the class faced in
Speaker 1: the naburgdorp for boss and sonna folded the faced lauder
Speaker 1: fever sevarro Obsugna eats that binne in a loch. It's
Speaker 1: that knit in the cadda's v not faced pasta sona
Speaker 1: hotsifourknoma ain't from the way the rahls from the retread
Speaker 1: to break at nits break in the zartid from the snail.
Speaker 1: The slothes that immant aunt mutemishind the rust kombrange his
Speaker 1: assort the leaphead boss in high large a crack to
Speaker 1: open before pot There tis the cala Takablada met snail
Speaker 1: zach and fiuti Harkanto clum hatwas boss. Then oh openbuk
Speaker 1: richd the vealhey over the paded volde for bast that
Speaker 1: he oghra Here was bohutu sehem still met en zarchtroi
Speaker 1: bos cakeop mbajrus rocke mar og news Here the snail
Speaker 1: is weld finchinnit they hey frost doatrusprek Sona knicht and
Speaker 1: lorch desarchiz Ja Mark caught mere hope of rust find
Speaker 1: here had his need so as ik daht did simply
Speaker 1: bahin lay that on the deep resprek Sona foretelldo over
Speaker 1: her stressful work and her zai g rutukumst boss dildes
Speaker 1: androma and worsteling osreefer the behebe and alkar had roshun
Speaker 1: forozno on mouting the embay the mere braughht under retretta'sself
Speaker 1: sona undected dots in print book wild Mark, it's what's
Speaker 1: our yar rad on the drugt and bos font in
Speaker 1: unhusprak the cairn for a new farrawl and simply into
Speaker 1: oxi did the krachtat on mere teeshad don her out
Speaker 1: comforzin the volgn de dach fulled unders for mbade son
Speaker 1: of Baron s retz at Marca thevel bos and eerst
Speaker 1: is in a save s hade It's ervara dot mbaye
Speaker 1: lephans for under the an umf putting under the Bisneo
Speaker 1: de Bohm, the re tretta hat and als nordichter bynvara
Speaker 1: venzebrat so for leitin at sentrum mete rimlach clark omnio
Speaker 1: stop at zette and therevel's triparn respective local aphants vistas
Speaker 1: a dot the stilta from the winter and preceis hatreeve.
Speaker 1: What's another hode.
Speaker 3: Let's take another. Listen, listen closely to any parts you
Speaker 3: may have missed.
Speaker 1: This snail fills sarchus of the denebomber for that spirituveila
Speaker 1: retretta sentrum in a rust hernede LANs pot the lands.
Speaker 3: The snow gently fell on the pine trees of the
Speaker 3: spiritual retreat center in the quiet Dutch countryside.
Speaker 1: Had vos winter and the velot lake pdicte Maten still vitedeig.
Speaker 3: It was winter and the world seemed covered with a
Speaker 3: silent white blanket.
Speaker 1: Souna stopped out of armer rooftal the cou de l'uotin
Speaker 1: te vel sahar Adam.
Speaker 3: Zafog Shanna stepped out of the warm main hall into
Speaker 3: the cold air, watching her breath turn to clouds.
Speaker 1: So fooled as if Forlora na and y'er ful stress
Speaker 1: and ronseegre.
Speaker 3: Had she felt lost after a year full of stress
Speaker 3: and uncertainty.
Speaker 1: The retreata hot still to below tisu zort mad still
Speaker 1: to brought oti stem in her hooft nabau.
Speaker 3: The retreat had promised the silence she sought, but the
Speaker 3: silence also brought out the voices in her head.
Speaker 1: Boss de fave deer trier tefrei willefer and aspironsreefer hat
Speaker 1: sanaka fondach O for auslage.
Speaker 3: Bush, the thirty five year old volunteer and aspiring writer,
Speaker 3: had skipped his duties today.
Speaker 1: Hey wilde inspirazi findi ind aude Boss Rondo matzentrum in
Speaker 1: Platz for the routino sebaiseer heide from the Treete.
Speaker 3: He wanted to find inspiration in the ancient woods surrounding
Speaker 3: the center instead of the routine activities of the retreat.
Speaker 1: Zen Romoni de come mit from der honde, and I
Speaker 1: hoped that the naturehem for hal conche fedhiself neet Combdenke.
Speaker 3: His novel idea wasn't taking off, and he hoped that
Speaker 3: nature would give him stories that he couldn't come up
Speaker 3: with himself.
Speaker 1: Distilta from the treetev was off and too Undebroco dot
Speaker 1: ferlaud froancer cloco in her inering annat anstande sinta class
Speaker 1: faced in the Nabu Rodorb.
Speaker 3: The silence of the retreat was occasionally broken by the
Speaker 3: distant sound of church bells, a reminder of the upcoming
Speaker 3: center class celebration in the nearby village.
Speaker 1: For Boss and Summer Fool, the de faced laud de ferve.
Speaker 3: For Bush and Shana, the festive sounds felt far away.
Speaker 1: Zevarro obsukna it's still bin in a loch, It's still
Speaker 1: neat in the gathers from the faced bust.
Speaker 3: They were searching for something inside themselves, something that didn't
Speaker 3: fit the framework of the celebration.
Speaker 1: Sunna hat sifournom ain't from the way rigels from the
Speaker 1: retreat to break at neats break.
Speaker 3: Shanna had decided to break one of the retreat's few rules,
Speaker 3: not speaking.
Speaker 1: In desartet from the snail buslow dot immont miss hind
Speaker 1: rust Coombrene di sezzo.
Speaker 3: In the softness of the snow, she decided that meeting
Speaker 3: someone might bring the piece she was seeking.
Speaker 1: Selip had boss in hi lar Skrakturt.
Speaker 3: She walked into the woods, her boots crunching on the
Speaker 3: frozen path.
Speaker 1: Dar tis de cala takablada met snail sarsu fifur dirkontklom.
Speaker 3: There among the bare branches laden with snow, she saw
Speaker 3: a figure coming toward her.
Speaker 1: Het vos boss said, O open buchrichttevelle over de bad dvald.
Speaker 3: It was Bush, his eyes focused on a book as
Speaker 3: he wandered the paths.
Speaker 1: For bast de'l te o krahr vos bohoo to seem
Speaker 1: still Metzartroi.
Speaker 3: Surprised that he also liked being here, She greeted him
Speaker 3: quietly with a soft high.
Speaker 1: Bos cake op mb he jus roke mar ok news here.
Speaker 3: Bush looked up a little startled, but also curious.
Speaker 1: This snaw is veld finchin neit.
Speaker 3: The snow is wonderful, isn't it?
Speaker 1: Say hey for lost do truspric.
Speaker 3: He said, Surprised by the conversation.
Speaker 1: Some echnique el desarchis.
Speaker 3: Shauna nodded and laughed softly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Mary called mere hope of brust finde here.
Speaker 3: Yes, but I was hoping to find more peace here.
Speaker 1: Het is neat souls igdart.
Speaker 3: It's not what I thought.
Speaker 1: The simple bhin lay little in deep rsprick.
Speaker 3: This simple beginning led to a deep conversation some of.
Speaker 1: Fortildo over her stressful of air and her own sake,
Speaker 1: rutu kunst.
Speaker 3: Shanna Ta about her stressful job and uncertain future.
Speaker 1: Boss Dil de Zendrome and vorstelinga olsreefer.
Speaker 3: Buss shared his dreams and struggles as.
Speaker 1: A writer sebuheben al car.
Speaker 3: They understood each other, had.
Speaker 1: Ross un ferosen de ld muting diembe de mere bracht
Speaker 1: conree treta zelf.
Speaker 3: Their surprising encounter brought them both more than the retreat itself.
Speaker 1: Son of undechte dots i print bouk wilde marc itzvozsa
Speaker 1: ol yarrat ul du.
Speaker 3: Drugt Shahna discovered that she wanted to create a picture book,
Speaker 3: something she had suppressed for years.
Speaker 1: And Boss font inn ul raspricht the cairn for aneu
Speaker 1: for howl and simply into axei di de kracht o
Speaker 1: mirti sehre done out Comforzin.
Speaker 3: And Buss found in their conversation the core of a
Speaker 3: new story, a simple interaction that had the power to
Speaker 3: say more than he could ever foresee.
Speaker 1: De four ren de dach fool de onders for himbade.
Speaker 3: The following days felt different for both of them.
Speaker 1: Son of Bauhon Fritze de mac tervel bas sen Eerstez.
Speaker 1: In his safe.
Speaker 3: Shahna began making sketches while Busch wrote his first sentences.
Speaker 1: Sahdl it erfarred' rimbe de la fans for Ndred and
Speaker 1: unfervardo muting ndre de bisniel de beaum.
Speaker 3: They had experienced something that changed both of their lives,
Speaker 3: an unexpected meeting under the snowy trees.
Speaker 1: De retreta haten als nortchterbay nvarreven sebrt.
Speaker 3: The retreat had eventually brought them closer to their true desires.
Speaker 1: S frilitin at sentram metel himlach clar o miu stop tiste.
Speaker 3: They left the center with smiles, ready to take new steps.
Speaker 1: Enterval sit respective the kalaphans vistas a delta stilt from
Speaker 1: the winter and preciss a trahev butts tood.
Speaker 3: And as they walked back to their respective lives, they
Speaker 3: knew that the silence of winter had given them exactly
Speaker 3: what they needed.
Speaker 4: Today's vocabulary words are coming up right after this commercial break.
Speaker 4: Here are today's vocabulary words first in Dutch, then in English.
Speaker 1: Zarchius Zarchius, Zachius gently retreta retreta retreta retreat spirito wil spirito, wail, spirito, veil,
Speaker 1: spiritual plot a, lands plot a, lands plots, alans, countryside, onseacre,
Speaker 1: hate onsecre hate, onsecer hate, uncertainty, Frei Wilcher, Frei Wilcher,
Speaker 1: Frei Wilcher, volunteer, ospi runde, ospi rand aspirrand aspiring in
Speaker 1: spirazi in spirazi in spirrazi inspiration aud aud ou the
Speaker 1: ancient Roman Roman Roman novel Cathers, Cathers fathers framework off
Speaker 1: and two off and two off and two, occasionally her innering,
Speaker 1: her innering, her innering reminder fur fur fi your figure, butts, butt, bots, path, dukker, duken,
Speaker 1: darker branches, bladder, bladen, bladder leaden, huss rocke, husroken, hussrocke,
Speaker 1: startled zarcht zorcht Zarcht soft interoxy interoxy, inter oxy interaction,
Speaker 1: furzeene four zeene four zeene, pur se respectif locker, respectif looker,
Speaker 1: respective locker respective sretzer sretzen sretze, sketches on mooting, on mooting,
Speaker 1: on mooting encounter, THENCE vincen, THENCE desires, routinous, Uti news,
Speaker 1: haughty news, routine four Zen, four Zene, four zene, predict, Flouster, flousteren,
Speaker 1: flowsterre whisper, lust, lust, lust, burden Girn Girn Girn Corp.
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