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8 Ancient Greek words for love – with illustrations and famous love quotes
Does having just one word for the unimaginably huge and complex concept of LOVE limit our ability to understand and express what it is? The Ancient Greeks had eight separate nouns to identify the different types of love. In English, we have just one. In order to clarify the kind of love we mean, we […]
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5 reasons rainy Sundays are good for the soul
1. You don’t have to feel guilty about staying inside all day. Nothing gets done on rainy Sundays. 2. You can wear unattractively comfortable clothing all day long. Not a scrap of denim in sight. 3. Endless cups of tea. 4. You can enjoy old lady activities like reading, arts and crafts, baking, or doing […]
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The terrifying, world-altering power of every tiny decision you make
As you’ll know from every movie, cartoon, TV show and book with a time travel plot, the seemingly small decisions we make on a daily basis can have a surprising amount of influence on the future. It’s the ripple/butterfly/domino effect – whatever you want to call it. With every choice, a tiny lever clicks into […]
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Today a squirrel shattered my self-esteem slightly
There’s a lady who frequents my local park. She has unkempt white hair and she carries a lot of plastic bags on her mobility device, as though she lives in some kind of rustic way (I imagine a derelict old house packed with towers of horded junk, but this is mere conjecture). Every day I […]
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Lying beneath a cherry blossom tree, I remembered that incredible experiences are everywhere
Last night I watched My Octopus Teacher on Netflix, a documentary about a filmmaker who, on the verge of a mental breakdown, gives up work to free dive off the Western Cape of South Africa every day. Wetsuitless, he slips into the cold, turbid waters of the South Atlantic Ocean every day (without exception, whatever […]
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What is it like being a copywriter? Pros and cons
These are some of the top phrases (or keywords, as copywriters call them) people Google when they’re daydreaming about what it must be like living the glamorous, coveted lifestyle of a copywriter: is being a copywriter a good career is copywriting worth it what is it like being a copywriter is a copywriter a good […]
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Why are outdoor pursuits so white?
I had to scroll through seven pages of white people gazing over mountain vistas before I could find a stock hiking photo featuring someone of colour. And it’s not that my image search is powered by a neo-Nazi algorithm (I hope); it seems to be representative of what’s happening out there in the real world. […]
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Happiness is only real when shared
Last week, over a few days (because I’m an easily distracted Millennial), I watched the film Into The Wild for the first time. If you haven’t seen it, pop it on your ‘to-watch’ list because it’s one of those films that’ll embed themselves into your being – in a really good way. It’s beautifully scripted […]
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Every time I don’t like how I look, I strike a pose and take a photo
The embarrassed, self-deprecating Brit in me does not want to write this post. The woman who’s fed up with hating her own body because it doesn’t subscribe in every way to the standard model of beauty, does. I recently wrote about how I’m making a real effort to accept my body after a lifetime of […]
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Knowing Nada – a short story
The black streets of Zagreb were shiny with rain. Above the traffic, the noise, the movement, almost-frozen raindrops ricocheted off the grand building facades. Their silhouettes reared up against the dead black sky as tall as the cliffs that marked the edge of the island Ana Horvat called home. But unlike her beloved coastline, these […]
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