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M is for Making Light (opens the original)
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M is for Marketing (opens the original)
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L is for Light (opens the original)
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It has dawned on me, if you’ll excuse the pun, that the biggest and most frequent glimmers I get are from glimmers of light itself.Yes, certainly, art and nature and humour do the job as well. But those are contained within light.It astounds me how much many people – mea culpa – take the essential elements of life for granted. Or reduce them to an astro… Read more
L is for Ladies (opens the original)
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L is for Labouring (opens the original)
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This is all about doing the work, whatever that work may be. In creating it, I was pushed to consider deeply what labour or work even are. Though I already started thinking about such things after watching Wim Wenders’ film Perfect Days over Christmas last year; in the baldest terms, it’s about a man cleaning Tokyo toilets for modest pay. (I highly recommend it).Do we always labour, first and foremost, to earn the money to survive? Does such action become something other than work when not done
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