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No signs of being a foreigner
Especially for individuals traveling much, there might be a common discrepancy between how the locals see a visitor, and how the visitor feels amongst the locals. The two sides have been very present deep inside, whenever I find myself in a space as a visitor. It feels clear that I will be judged as some…
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Quito, and voice use
These days I have been screaming, blaming the Quito altitude for it. Just now I have noticed that it is not so much the altitude, as much as feeling attacked by sounds and noises surrounding me, making me believe I should be heard above them while in conversations. This new realization makes me consider if,…
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Rudolf Steiner *II 27 1861 — The Life You Give
Rudolf Steiner, born February 27 1861, in Kraljević, Austria, was a spiritualist, lecturer, and founder of anthroposophy, a movement based on the notion that there is a spiritual world comprehensible to pure thought but accessible only to the highest faculties of mental knowledge. Attracted in his youth to the works of Goethe, Steiner edited that…
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Víctor Hugo *II 26 1802 — The Life You Give
Victor Hugo, born Victor-Marie Hugo, February 26, 1802, in Besançon, France, is the poet, novelist, and dramatist who was the most important of the French Romantic writers. Though regarded in France as one of that country’s greatest poets, he is better known abroad for such novels as Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) and Les Misérables (1862).…
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