HeyJaredWitold Riedel
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What is the meaning of flowers? (opens the original)
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Stood on my tiptoes. One foot only. Probably for eight years. The other foot turned into a branch and the flowers on it began to look for the sun or some pollinators too. But none here in the basement of this spectacular castle. What a beautiful building. The towers are bright and topped by funny roofs. Many come to see them. This is one lovely attraction, to be here for ages.I love that our car does not have a computer that tracks everything we do. However the blinking reminder that the next se
Is this a pulse or are you happy to see me? (opens the original)
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Last night, after a pretty challenging day, (one with a few happy highlights too, of course), I sat down and wrote a crazy article here. And it was crazy on purpose. I had seen an interesting font, called Decoy, designed to say one thing to robots and another thing to humans. It’s a but like preparing for some scenario in the future where not only will we need to press a little checkbox reassuring websites that we are not robots, there might be a time when we will need to provide that informatio
So Many Kinds of Lights (opens the original)
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My five year old son has an incredibly sharp mind and he often uses it to avoid whatever he does not like. This might include brushing his teeth or walking. Tonight, after a day full of intense encounters and experiences he asked if we could just sit outside on the fire escape and “listen to the sounds of nature”. It’s fairly quiet overlooking the wild secret garden behind our building. Eight cats live there and they seem to be taking care of any birds that might disturb that “peace”. Wish these
The witch, the mother and the murdering girl (opens the original)
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Two nights ago I read Hänsel und Gretel to my seven year old son. I read the German version with the touching introduction from July 3rd 1819.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1092" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ELjf!,w_1456,c_limit,f_au
a grain of sand thinking about grains of sand (opens the original)
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The wind just knocked on a door and it was what it took to write this sentence. And a car just drove by the window and that’s what it took to write this one. It’s quiet in Lisbon in August and yet we have a full house and more people are coming on that plane that just flew by.<sou
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