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Identify your cue, understand the reward you’re seeking, and replace the routine with a healthy one. Your brain will adapt through practice and reward reinforcement.
The Habit Loop
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It becomes no easier the further one gets in life. But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life’s fight (one matures in the storm).
Vincent van Gogh, a letter to his brother Theo, 30 October 1877.
Frédéric Forest
December 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Frédéric Forest
December 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Maria Callas, kle_omenis, Kalamata
December 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
As Tzvetan Todorov wrote in his book The Fear of Barbarians (2008), many forms of nationalism generate paranoia, and see enemies everywhere, both within and without.

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Indian Temptations
‘I understand that there is a temptation to bring everything in India, whether it’s literature, music or art, around to its relationship to nationalism. But as my friends in the art world have always ...
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December 12, 2025 at 3:54 AM
What does it tell you about languages, people, cultures, if their words for time and death are different? The Greeks differentiated between Kronos and Thanatos; the Romans did the same. Did this make the weight of a life there heavier or lighter?

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Hindi
‘What does it mean for a language – for a people, for a culture – to have the same word for time and death? What does it do to them?’
granta.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:51 AM
After 1815 liberals anticipated a new assault from the powers of Eastern Europe, led by Russia, which since the late 18th century had forced the partition of Poland and expanded into the Crimea, Ukraine and the Balkans.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jonathan Parry · Dancing the Mazurka: Anglo-Russian Relations
In the 18th and 19th centuries, Britain and Russia did not seek to divide the world between them and very rarely pointed...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Luís Leite, Portugal
December 12, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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On December the third the wind changed overnight and it was winter…🐦‍⬛

🪶 Daphne du Maurier, The Birds (1952)
📸 Hein Gorny, Flock of Birds (1930s)
December 3, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Sarah Anne Johnson, WWSOSR (detail) (pigment print with oil paint, 2020) 📸🎨
December 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Morris Graves, Winter Flowers (mixed media on paper, 1976)
December 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Will Barnet, The Spider Sewed At Night (oil on canvas, 1989)
December 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Enrique Martinez Celaya, The Music (White Forest) (aquatint in colors on paper, 2002)
December 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Why are the streets and squares emptying so rapidly,
everyone going home lost in thought...

Laurie Anderson peforming C.P.
Cavafy's Waiting For The Barbarians and Ithaca (with the Brooklyn Youth
Chorus and The Knights) (2023) 🤯

youtu.be/rI15W-BBhrw
Laurie Anderson's Mind-Blowing Performance of 'Waiting for the Barbarians'
YouTube video by ALL ARTS TV (ALL ARTS)
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December 5, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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📣Europeans are speaking loud and clear!

EU citizens see strong benefits from EU membership, and call for a stronger and more assertive EU with reinforced economic independence and a common defence and security policy.

Read more ↓
link.europa.eu/D8krNJ
December 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Another sun and moon combo. 8/15/12 and 11/14/11.
#photography
December 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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"Garden Beauty" - Photographed June 10, 2023, in Afton, Virginia. 📷

#flowers #garden #nature
December 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Taken 11/7/12.
#photography
December 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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December 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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December 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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December 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Location absolutely helps. I made three trips to Death Valley and it was incredible each time.
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Tramonto nel fango
December 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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December 8, 2025 at 2:42 AM