Tidbit Insightings, June 5

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
Thomas Carlyle
Summer has come, at last. So far, it’s been a few days of sunshine and heat wave followed by four days of rain. On the bright side, the plants on our yard have [...]

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It’s just my opinion

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W. H. Auden
Yesterday, I got to witness a meeting unlike anything I’ve ever seen. An actual, official meeting, where the chair walked out midway through. There was a lot of antagonism in the air, and a lot of it took place [...]

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Miscellaneous mid-move Insightings

Unless you move, the place where you are is the place where you will always be.
Ashleigh Brilliant
It’s Day Three of the Great Move. So far, we’ve managed to get most of the essentials to the new place, but there’s still a lot left to pack at the old apartment.
Even though a move only counts for [...]

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Tidbit Insightings, May 4

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
Kimberly Johnson
Apologies and excuses
A few days back, I and my fiancé had a conversation where I said something abrupt. He was offended, but I felt I had not been out of line, because, you know, something and something else. I forget the exact phrasing, but the bottom line was [...]

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Windbag phobia

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Plato
Background: I’m Finnish. Stereotypically, Finns only speak when there is something so important to say they just can’t bear the silence anymore. Continuing with the stereotype, a Finnish form of small talk is sitting in a circle (or a line, [...]

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