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"Everything in moderation. Except moderation." Lawrence from "Nightingales'

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Cliff Dawson

Share a story about someone who had a positive impact on your life. I met Cliff while we were both gardening on the rooftop of Maurice Tempelsman. Maurice passed away last year and he had one of the most luscious penthouse roof gardens on Park Avenue. A place filled with trees, shrubs and tropical plants deserving of a king. Maurice had been one of the worlds most in demand diamond cutters and…

Cliff Dawson

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Showing up is the ticket

Showing up is the ticket

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Free your 🧠 and your 🫏 will follow…

Free your 🧠 and your 🫏 will follow…

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Creativity is my middle name

Creativity is my middle name

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“Letting the music play you” as a spiritual pursuit___

“Letting the music play you” as a spiritual pursuit___

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About dream journals

I started a dream journal in June. In these six months, I made about 66 entries. It confirmed a few things I learned from the ‘lucid dreaming’ and sleep research’ community. We all dream. Most of us can not remember our dreams. If you ask your subconscious that you want to remember what you have dreamed the night before, chances are that when you wake up in the morning, you will have some…

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New York City is still a Big Apple

New York City is still a Big Apple

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There’s no such thing as a free lunch

“When it’s free, you are the product.” Once you enter the METAverse, you pay for the entertainment received with your personal Data, by agreeing to have your user behavior analyzed and sold to the highest bidder, by sacrificing years of your life to what essentially amounts to filling out customer surveys without compensation. It get’s even worse if you try to use these spaces to run any type…

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Education and craftsmanship

What aspects of your cultural heritage are you most proud of or interested in? I asked Siri to give me examples of what is generally considered German Cultural Heritage and while the answer was not surprising, I have to distance myself from the part that is considered more of a tradition. The love for beer and the somewhat obsessive compulsive need for punctuality and the appreciation for order…

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Brand new

What brands do you associate with? The best brand is brand new. In general I’m not big on brands and labels. Often, the more you see a product advertised, the shittier it is. Good brands are quiet and offer great value at an even better price. They do not waste their budget on advertisement just to charge the customer extra for their product. That being said, I’m on my way to Trader Joe’s. A…

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Every day is a holiday

How do you celebrate holidays? Well, not every day. But if you subscribe to all the religious calendars available on your phone, you will get a lot to celebrate! Between the Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Chinese (Taoist and Confucian) and Islamic Holidays alone, you have a lot to celebrate. I celebrate the sun rising every day and look: there is lady liberty, she is holding up the flame of…

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A rainy morning and 3 shots of espresso with lotsa cream

How do you relax? It’s been hard to relax lately. I’ve been overwhelmed with the doomsday news of rising inflation, the overinflated stock market, storm troopers harassing citizens, the slave trade of the equity investor takeover of the agricultural industrial complex, to name just a few. It seems like a bad time to ignore those things. I really need a job, grocery shopping gives me anxiety and…

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Get up when you wake up

What daily habit do you do that improves your quality of life? Tossing and turning is the enemy of a good day. I don’t use an alarm unless I have to. I don’t have a cat, dog or kids to wake me up. But I wake up before it’s bright outside. Love that quiet time when the old Asian folks collect their bottles and the garbage truck rolls through to pick up the trash. In the winter, I light a…

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Optimistic Musings

It’s hard to find much to agree on with Elon Musk, but I do have to agree with this quote of his that… “It’s better to be optimistic and end up being wrong than to be pessimistic and end up being right”. I agree that if you are optimistic until you are wrong, you can chalk it off and change your perspective. You still get to be optimistic most of the time. Clearly a win for your quality of…

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Till EulenSpiegel was a medieval prankster

Where did your name come from? Till EulenSpiegel He was a medieval prankster He was a joker and a trickster Wealthy hogs considered him a Gangster He never worked a job For longer than necessary To make a joke out of the trade And to make his exit in a very Memorable way, one for the books Folk tales were spun about the way He thumbed his nose At Those who keep theirs to The…

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Writing is therapeutic

What do you enjoy most about writing? Ever since I was a child I’ve been told that I’m ‘babbling’. I like the sound of my own voice, I guess. But I’ve also learned that a wordy way of expressing oneself is considered a sign of weakness by some people. ‘Get to the point’ being one popular way of cutting off someone’s way of trying to describe their thought process. So writing, especially…

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Loisaida-The Lower East Side-New York City

What do you love about where you live? Loisaida is the way the Spanish speaking population pronounces Lower East Side. At some point this was a neighborhood mostly Inhabited by Puerto Rican and Dominican Immigrants. Before that it had been a German neighborhood at some point around the turn of the century. In 1911 or so a horrible ferry accident killed 2000 women and children on their way to a…

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