Looking up, I spot wasps, buzzing near the garden table, about two metres away. This is around three o’clock in the afternoon, and I’ve been sitting outside for about an hour now, trying to soak up some sunrays, while reading Dante’s Divine Comedy. I decide to put the red hardbound cover back down onto my […]
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Here’s one hell of a controversial opinion: I liked Mission Impossible 7 better than Oppenheimer. I know, I know, Oppie will bring in more money at the box office, critics liked it better, it tells a much more important story, etc. But when it comes down to personal enjoyment – which is what truly matters
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Imagine, if you will, a 15-year-old standing in front of a fancy hotel. Today, he has put in more effort than usual. He’s donned his best short-sleeved blue shirt, white trousers, matching blue-white sneakers, and blue sunglasses to top it off. You might assume he’s about to go on a date, but no, in fact,
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I walked into the cinema shop, ten minutes remaining to buy snacks and a film ticket. Nothing worse than being thirsty, so off to the soda fountain I went. I poured myself an enormous cup of Coke, 750 ml of sugar about to rush through my veins, heck yeah. A mixture of soda and ice
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Last Monday, I went to a funeral. This was for my neighbour, she was in her early fifties and one of the most positive, upbeat women you’d ever meet. She’d been diagnosed with cancer a few months earlier. Now the funeral had come, and she had one major request before passing away: everyone had to
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Lately I’ve been reading Ovid’s Metamorphoses. If you’re anything like me, the title and its author sound somewhat familiar, but that’s about it. Here’s the short version. Ovid was a famous writer, who’d been exiled by the Roman emperor around 8 AD, the precise reasons for which still remain somewhat of a mystery. While in
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In een eerdere nieuwsbrief heb ik er al eens over geschreven, hoe het vaak gemakkelijker is om anderen advies te geven. Als we rondlopen met een probleem, dan weten we meestal wel het antwoord erop, maar om de een of andere reden bieden we er weerstand tegen. Een hele tijd geleden besloot ik eens om
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It was Saturday morning, June 23rd. I’m still in bed, when I read the news on my phone. Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner’s ill-tempered boss, appeared to be staging a coup – a brazen move. So much so, that I can hardly believe what I’m reading. Only after reading multiple, reliable sources corroborating the events, was I
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Recently, I came across a Twitter spat. A ghostwriter, claiming to be one of the world’s best, accused one of his colleagues of plagiarism. According to him, he either copied his words verbatim, or swiped his general concepts. Now, since these are people who (also) make money giving others advice, these sort of accusations are
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Last week’s weather has been great… and for once I don’t feel like ranting critically. So, let’s try something positive. Lately, I’m back into fitness, a lifelong passion of mine, ever since fourteen years old. Now, I’m not saying I’ve been working out for seventeen years straight without interruption. No, there have been periods –
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