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The Lebanese Sajeria Hua!
We tried out The Lebanese Sajeria for lunch. Let me start off by telling you that their location is super, and their drinks were nice. The ginger homemade lemonade was wonderfully made, not too sweet, not too sour, blended perfection. That is where my praise for this place ends. Their interior was sterile holstein cow…
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Hair There! How’re you doing?
My hair has been through a lot. I started highlighting it when I was twelve. Yes, you read that correct. Left alone at home, during a break from hostel, I took the bottle of Fem bleach and gave myself two bright streaks of blonde. No regrets whatsoever! They were rather professionally done, even if I…
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The Best Lines from Lego Movie 2
I was a rather reluctant candidate when it came to watching Lego Movie 2. However, I was pleasantly surprised by its nuanced humor. Scathingly brilliant! A must watch if you love intelligent comedy. Sweet Mayhem: Bring me your fiercest leader. Wyldstyle: [referring to Emmet] This guy is special. Sweet Mayhem: This guy was a fierce…
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Valentine Gift Ideas for 2019
Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day and today you are reading a post on gift ideas – are you horribly late scrambling for last minute tips? Or, wondering if you can top up what you have already bought/got/planned? Or, a regular subscriber who reads everything I write? If you have said yes to any of the three-mentioned…
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What about the letters?
Aneri Pattani writes, “Can teaching mindfulness through smartphones cure America’s loneliness problem?” The study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, involved 153 adults practicing 20-minute guided meditations on their phone each day for two weeks. By the end of the study, those whose meditations focused on developing acceptance and awareness…
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Thinking about Beauty
“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. That is what life is.” – Saul Bellow. But, no one ever tells you that these vivid disruptions are grueling. That the ouroboros, wheels, flags, petals, dust motes, textures, fabric, ink, powder, feather, paper, pigments, and ephemera, are taxing to the senses. The drawing out of the self, that responds, is…
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The Horror Within: On watching Life
After watching Life (2017) on Netflix I wondered how the small responsive unassuming alien life form grows, feeds, and transforms into a creature that eventually squeezes the vital parts of the body in order to nurture itself. Much in the vein of Frankenstein (1818) killing its creator/stimulator and thus, warning of the perils of meddling…
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Dealing with Darkness, a year later, two years in fact…
Originally posted on Ojo De Piedra – Eye of Stone.: How many months or years can a photography project take?, is there a point where one can say “it’s done”? … Luckily in this dehumanized world some still keep their promises (though it took me longer than I expected). Several weeks ago (in fact months)…
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Dinner at Thai from Sky
Did you notice there was no blog entry yesterday; I kept postponing it thinking I will do it post lunch, after school, following dinner, and then as I returned from a night out with some of my favorite ladies, I realized it was 1:00am. It was the next day, time had slipped by, and I…
