Kategori: Swedish rants
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été MMXXV
Hace días que el invierno cedió paso a la primavera y ahora, parece que la cobija de los pobres anda con prisa. No se requieren muchos grados para animar y andar a echar la maquina de la naturaleza tanto viva como muerta. Da uno cuenta de ello sin querer queriendo. Digo, si uno quiere, no…
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Horde mentality
I really don’t know if am going to do a good job on this snippet of the diary. Which of course it ain’t a diary because the word implies some sort of daily writing. Journal then. This post comes about in English because I feel it more soundly expresses what am about to digest live…
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non possumus esse certi de exauditione
I’ve lived in Sweden for well over 27 years now and my colleagues, right around these xmas seasons, still ask me how’s it like in México. Which I really don’t mind at all. I usually answer to the best of my abilities to which I, much to my chagrin, fail miserably at describing what it…
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death by any other means in retrospect: one year ago II
While on the cot reposando as we say in Spanish, it never occurred to me to have visitors. It was always others worried about it and I suppose I got caught in that current of thought. Suffice to say I had none who worried in earnest about my state of well being, as I recall,…
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death by any other means in retrospect: one year ago
Apparently I was about to die. Yes, you read that right. I am a living miracle of sorts. Befuddled as I am byt he whole experience, I am a walking question mark aloof in an unreal world were Mr. Trump reigns at his whims, democracy is practically dead because the rich own the rule book…
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siempre en mi mente
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Anomalies
Anomalies are those things that do not just veer off into the unknown causing major friction in chartered and metered courses. They are in and by their own right natural occurrences that sometimes allow us to change course or make us stop right in our tracks. One of these phenomenas in language learning is the…
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Insight
I don’t consider myself a man of God though I like to think that whatever communion I hold with higher powers at least is in the vicinity of God. Though I haven’t specified what sort of God you and I tend to think of the same God, this is English and English speaking people, for…
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I went to a festival in my small town Sweden were I in turn came under the influences of the spirits. Everybody knows everybody here. Now, am not trying to excuse the fact I behaved inappropriately at the festival, although I haven’t even described this inappropriateness it goes to show how weird this whole charade…
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Cold
I met this guy at work who had suffered a heart attack at least a year or two ago. He was a lot more plump and filled in his face then when I first caught eye of him which then I thought he was too skinny in his upper cranial self then the rest of…