Being More Like the French… and Other Europeans

(A Perspective – Part 2) Since I’m still on a necessity-based writing break (but nothing bad!), I’ve touched up another “Perspective” piece I wrote last year for a different purpose… and, in the “PS” section below I’ve added an additional article link I hope you’ll enjoy. Over on Medium.com, Anna and Daniel, The Flourishing Hedonists (I quoted them in my last piece) have published another item that has inspired me with its perspective on the…

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Choosing Happiness Isn’t a Perfect Proposition…

But It Can Take You a Long Way! (A Perspective – Part 1) Since I’m on a necessity-based writing break (but nothing bad!), I’ve touched up a “Perspective” piece that I wrote last year for a different purpose. I hope you’ll like the premise. I do! I really enjoy reading Anna and Daniel, The Flourishing Hedonists, on Medium.com. I love their attitudes towards life and sex, and although I will quote some specific passages below, I…

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Today, a Quote (Part 3)

Part 3     “You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony,…

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Today, a Quote

In a rare excursion from everything else on this site, these are not my words… but today, a quote. “I am a collector. An impressive and respected collector. I collect situations. Let me guide you. The moment that’s always the same… I’ll make it unforgettable for you.”    ⁃ Mario to Emmanuelle (Emmanuelle, film, 1974)

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