Opskop: an absolute treat of a little festival in the Swartland near Piketberg.
I had such a heart-warming time playing again after so long, surrounded by lovely people ♡
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Reddit is incredible. A website so important that because google no longer even remotely functions, you have to google reddit+topic to find information from humans about it. Yet its standard of humor would embarrass someone from 2007.
Every life is a sound. The soft susurrus of jellyfish who have never known the shore. The sharp sizzle of deer fleeing through autumn corn. These sounds belong to the same unfinished poem as you and your fistful of years like copper coins. It wouldn’t be poetry without you.
The diamond is with $400million and South Africa has 60 million people. Which means we can give everyone $1million and we would still have $340million left.
Bittersweet announcement but after an amazing 2 years as an infectious disease expert I am moving on. I am now an expert in no-fly zones and Eastern European affairs. Excited to make the most of this new opportunity.
It’s odd.
When you learn to cook,
you rediscover your love of basic foods.
When you learn to fight, you feel less compelled to prove it.
When you learn to speak to the dead and wither with necromancy,
you find new value in the simple sweetness of a warm room and a kind listener.
We are neither gods nor visitors here. Our cognitive adaptations do not make us intrinsically superior to sparrows or lichen. Hiding birth and death from view does not make them vanish. We drink the waters of life and then we return them. We do not witness nature. We are nature.