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      [Home]   [ Index ] [ Permalinks ] [ RSS ] [ Recent comments ] [ Books ] [ Blogs of note ] A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days. ( Goethe ) January 2007   Wednesday 07-01-31   Marriage is a wonderful institution...but who wants to live in an institution?   Groucho Marx Swan lake   To celebrate our first ten years, we went to see   Swan Lake   by   Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky   in the Finnish National Opera. The ballet was a co-operation with some Dutch ballet, with Finnish guest star as Odette/Odile, a trule spectaculer dancer. I have hardly even seen anything so beautiful as the ballet. It was a good and mature (?) way to celebrate.   The first 10 years   10 years we have been together,   S   and I. Not married, not in an institution, just together, which is way better. If we are lucky, there are still decades of life together for us to share. Maybe 4, or with ex...

      [Home]   [ Index ] [ Permalinks ] [ RSS ] [ Blogs of note ] A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days. ( Goethe ) December 2006   Saturday 06-12-30   By getting up early in the morning one also gets more time at his disposal for work as compared to late-risers. Scholar and thinkers get up early in the morning and contemplate.   Rig Veda quote Morning news   Newspapers I check in the morning   New York Times     — web access only 30 dollars a year   Guardian UK   International Herald Tribune   Financial Times   Al Jazeera   Die Zeit   Antiwar.com   The Economist   LA Times   Yes, it takes time and may depress. Still, it is worth the trouble.   Some worthy blogs   A selection political of blogs I follow regularly.   Juan Cole   Reason   Foreign Policy   War in context   Jihad watch   Glob...