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When they become due, I don’t like them at all.
Taxes look large, be they ever so small
Taxes are debts which I venture to say,
No man or no woman is happy to pay.
I grumble about them, as most of us do.
For it seems that with taxes I never am through.
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Recently, I spent a whole weekend “enhancing” old photos with the help of an AI application. The offer had popped up on the Internet, a trial subscription for 48 hours, just 99 cents! I couldn’t miss such a bargain.
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This picture, taken at our last hiking tour, was meant to be posted on my next Wordless Wednesday but I struggled, so much came to my mind. The truth needed to be revealed because at first glance the message would be misleading.
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I was absolutely stunned -but not in a good way- when I saw the new header on my blog. Without asking my permission and without informing me, WordPress had placed a “Gift” icon on my blog. I assume it happened right after I canceled the automatic renewal of the Premium WordPress plan, which I had tried for only one month after I had felt bothered by too many ads on my blog.
“Imagine you come upon a house painted brown. What color would you say the house was?”
“Why brown, of course.”
“But what if I came upon it from the other side, and found it to be white?”
“That would be absurd. Who would paint a house two colors?”
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I haven’t been blogging much lately. Every time I sat down at my desk with the intention to write a post, our now nine-month-old Vader laid down at my feet and looked at me with his puppy eyes. Perfect dog owners don’t grow on trees, they are carefully trained by their dogs -and I knew I had to spend more time with him.
OPEN and HONEST, these two words go hand in hand. You can not be honest without opening up, and you can’t be open without being honest. It’s not easy, it takes some courage and you have to be prepared for destructive criticism.
The German International Broadcast company “DW” (Deutsche Welle/German Wave) made a hell of a documentary, which most of us will never see. And why would we? The truth stings a bit, it has the tendency to shed light on secrets we don’t want to have to deal with.
It’s hard to watch TV these days, negative campaign adds left and right! How much nicer it would be if the candidates would just tell us what they stand for. “Hello…introduce yourself! I am your audience and a potential voter. Give up the smear campaigns, it gets you nowhere -at least not in my house.”