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Archives for August 2024

How do you say “wait for me at the park entrance” in eight languages?

There’s a new book…. isn’t there always!

This work of literature is more novel than guide.

It’s fiction with a thread of biography-meets-travel-book.

If you long for, in fact have waited all your life for just such a masterpiece, we want to hear from you so we can get to work!

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We knew the uncles and sisters.

The long reach of a plain tree provided the only good place for long discussions, seductions and incipient intrigues.

A gold medallion still hung from a high branch.

Who left this valuable keepsake we, and everyone else, had no idea.

In the shade of everything, everything matters.

And everything sparkles.

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Detecting happiness and sadness is very difficult if someone has a neutral expression.

Of course there’s far more to it than that! Of course! Of course!

Don’t check the parking meter before you park. That is the answer you’ve been looking for. 

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We detected a high degree of positivity and good humour today.

You better be careful, smiling, wrinkling next to your eyes…you may start to look joyful.

Expletive deleted, is not the best formula.

Created, not deleted is much more fun

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There’s always one layer that if it were removed would make everything so simple.

Pretending that it isn’t, there doesn’t really help that much.

Perhaps the way is to laugh at the ridiculousness of fake logic.

Steering through the world can be like rafting down Niagara Falls.

That might be easier. It just travels in one direction.

Again… Laughter. 

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