Condemned to Joy

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A former colleague turned me on to all the scholarly/intellectual articles on happiness. Who knew it was its own area of study?

“Become your own best friend, learn self-esteem, think positive, dare to live in harmony,” we were told by so many self-help books, though their very number suggested that these were not such easy tasks.
Pascal Bruckner, “Condemned to Joy,” City Journal.

Week 5, in which I enjoyed art and political confrontation

I biked to Mitte to check out an exhibit at KOW featuring works by Jens Jensen, Barbara Hammer, and Tobias Zielony.

Tammi’s V-Day tip: never regret love.

This is definitely not my typical post. I admit to being an unrepentant romantic. And it’s the Hallmark Holiday! So… …a virtual

My first canyon

About Walnut Canyon...wow. My photographs will never do justice to what it was like looking over into that canyon.

"A lie has no legs." Photo by Pawel Czerwinski via Unsplash

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What I don’t know of war I never want to know. Yet …

Last night, the Boy and I attended the final performance of "Secondhand-Zeit. Das Ende des roten Menschen." at the Musikbrauerei.

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