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Not Our Holidays, Not Our Menu
Growing up in the city, you learn quickly that some things slip quietly out of reach. Urban life gives you convenience, sure, but it takes away the kind of holidays that feel like ours. The ones tied to ancestral land, to families who’ve known each other since before memory began. The ones where kinship isn’t…
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No Guts!
Yeah- but only when it comes to salt. And spices. That’s really the only time I feel confident about how much is enough. No measuring spoons. No counting pinches. Just gut. And it works. Mostly. Outside the kitchen, though? That instinct muscle feels weak. Like I never really used it, so it just… atrophied. Maybe…
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Face Off?
When First Impressions Don’t match Reality. I’ll admit it- I’m one of those people who wants to be liked. I want to make a lasting, good first impression. Not a pretentious one, but the kind that says: I’m a decent human being. Fun to be around ( most times). Easy going (more often than not.…
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Still not a Musketeer
Elon Musk– Ashlee Vance I’m not a big fan of biographies. Or of the main star in this one, to be honest. But I have been trying to finish every book I start, and believe you can’t know less from reading. Even if it’s not a favourite, there are always lessons to take away. This…
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Nowhere, Everywhere
Why do I have to choose one place? And why must I live there? Can’t I just visit and roam around, then elsewhere, and then roam again? And the cycle continues- as it always does- till death. Or Mars. I envy. Or rather, I wish. Teleportation was real. Because I don’t know about living- setting…
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Lost and Finding
I don’t know if these things we’re finding are really the things we lost, or if they are just lying around waiting for whoever passes by first. Like the birds and the worms, or talent and hard work. You know, rewards for those who show up. What I found, I didn’t even know I had…
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The Small Talk (and Maybe Work)
Honestly? Checking in on people’s moods-especially my bosses’- before I settle into work and plan my day. I’d love to just arrive, breathe and get on with things as I please( within reason, mostly), without having to gauge whether today is a good day for them.. or one of those shouty, stormy ones that could…
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Chasing Stars
Most famous or infamous person has to mean that the world at large-or at least a large percentage holds this person to such stature. If that is the case, I will disappoint greatly. As I have not had a chance to meet anyone, face to face, that would fall into this category. My kind has…
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Pass: Of Good Grades and Passionless Subjects.
I don’t think I had one. Sure, I did not enjoy religious studies- more specifically Christian Religious Studies (CRE) as I did Maths or English or science. But even those were just subjects. Things to study, memorize, and pass. That was the goal. Not curiosity. Not joy. Just survival. With the way education was structured-or…
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Time and Time Again
From whom? At what cost? Do my loved ones get some, too? Also, is it more time? Or time away from something? I sure could use some time off this adulting business. Is that on offer too? Like a short break from having to deal with mean bosses and unsatisfied customers. And an increasingly annoying…
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