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Emojis kill brains. Emojis make you look stupid. And me too. All of us. I think emojis make us all kind of silly.
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Emojis kill brains. Emojis make you look stupid. And me too. All of us. I think emojis make us all kind of silly.
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Something happened last week, that made me rethink and reevaluate my beliefs (?) or perhaps as someone who claims to be agnostic, I should not use the word BELIEVE, but instead call it opinion.
Continue readingI’m sure you know the saying: “Live every day as if it were your last”. And I’m sure you’re thinking, “What hogwash.” To believe that we can live every day the way we live our last days on earth is naïve and idealistic nonsense about improving the world. It just doesn’t work.
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Have you ever wished the fantastic world of Narnia stretched out behind the door of your wardrobe, or if you don’t have a wardrobe, that a magical door would appear in your closet, or that you just need to run fast enough towards a wall on the platform to immerse yourself in another, magical land?
Continue readingSince my school days, a poem by Hilde Domin has accompanied me.
Don’t get tired,
but
quietly hold out
your hand to the miracle, like a bird.
“People say you’re born innocent, but it’s not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You inherit your identity, your history, like a birthmark that you can’t wash off. … We are born with our heads turned back, but my mother says we have to face into the future now. You have to earn your own innocence, she says. You have to grow up and become innocent.”
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As a child I watched them cut down trees in the Alps
First by the hundreds, then by thousands
New and better ski slopes were needed
Lifts and hotels were built to attract tourists
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Sometimes I have to remind myself that I really like people. I like people who are active, who don’t need to be nudged, who don’t have to be told to do this or that, but who know what to do and do it.
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Yesterday I asked my husband if I am getting more cynical with age, or if I just got wiser and it has gotten harder to impress me. His simple answer: “Yes!” It took a moment to sink in. “You mean both?” He chuckled and nodded. Prince Charming might be on to something, as always.
Continue readingThe F-Word, many of us use it without knowing what it actually means and what it stands for. Where does it come from? How did it start?
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