October 2011
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My song of the day - The Walkmen - While I Shovel the Snow
It isn’t snowing yet…but still..
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nothing ventured, nothing gained
Wer nicht wagt, gewinnt nicht
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Wanderung nach Praha
I took the slow train to somewhere unfamiliar at noon on a Saturday on the first day of October - the seventh month of my stay in Berlin.
Nothing much had changed. My German was still terrible, but the sun was shining. It had cruelly kept itself hidden away during the summer months. The sunshine in Berlin was reclusive and sporadic from June to August - it teased me and taunted me and made me...
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out of sight, out of mind.
Aus den Augen, aus dem Sinn.
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Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature, nor do the...
– Helen Keller
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poem of the day.
Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high,...
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cais do sodre. sonho do dia.
On my second day in Portugal, it rained; lightly and unenthusiastically at first. I waited for Alberto to pick me up under the shelter of a bus stop overhang near Cais do Sodre on the left bank of the River Tagus that was usually the deepest blue but was grey and foreboding on that day because of the weather.
A few worn out looking, tanned older men were fishing by the shore and didn’t even seem...
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All good things are wild, and free.
– Henry Thoreau
- Because this is 100 PERCENT true.