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I have a friend who visits every year. This year it was March 14th and will stay until November 7th. I'm glad you're back!

the coming Sunday.

Opened a bottle of champagne, I’ve bought for a different occasion, and called the marina. Told that I’ve checked with the weather god Prognosis and it promises -3 and 2 (5) m/s from NW (feels like -7). Whatchathink? The marina said: “Welcome”.

Bloody matured of them.

Poured a coupe and said that I’m sorry I’s sour the previous time.

A short discussion followed. I made my points, but accepted theirs. They own the enterprise, which wasn’t said. Bloody mature of them.

Took a sip from the coupe. Woosh… and got to hear that we’ll be paddling deeper into the fiord away from the open sea. Some places there are so shallow the kayak scraps the bottom: no rocks, no sea grass for the crustaceans to hide; no depth for small fishes to escape. Nothing to feed on for the next step of the food chain pyramid…

… and a couple of kilometres longer, than my usual route, which’s good, the days growing longer and all. And the very place I’ve seen my first sea star at. And a sea eagle. And enchantedly, Hänsel-und-Gretelly beautiful behind the turn island….

And no way for seeing a seal: too shallow for them.

I’ll always love you, my beautiful seal. As in Whitney Houston.

But I’m on.

About a year ago, life changed and suddenly products disappeared off the grocery store shelves. Canned foods, rice, water, laundry soap, bleach, disinfectants and most importantly... toilet paper.
I've been through a bunch of hurricanes and this was 10 times worse.
Fights were commonplace when workers stocked the shelves then opened the doors. People literally ran to the paper products aisle and started filling their shopping carts.
Management wasn't smart enough to post signs limiting quantities at enforce it at the cash registers.
At first, some off brands began to appear. That must have been 4-6 months into the pandemic and when things slowly began to normalize nearly 8 months later I noticed the quality of the products I've been using for years was not up the the standards of a year earlier.
Paper cups for example. I've been buying the same brand for many years. Always reliable. Sometimes, I'd forget and come back in the morning and my beverage was intact. Now, I find that after a few minutes, liquids start to seep through the seams in the bottom of the cups. it's not a bad batch as it's become consistent for a few months now, even if I buy the same brand from another store.
Premium facial tissues would pop-up for the entire box and now, there are breaks so you have to reach inside and get it started again. A box of 160 tissues with 4 sequence breaks usually wastes 8 tissues.
Back to toilet tissue. They are made on machines as one really wide roll then sliced into individual rolls that we are used to using. The edges are perfectly cut... well, they used to be. I'm finding the slicing machine is off and some rolls have jagged edges.
Those machines crank out thousands of rolls per day without human intervention. Maybe it's time someone should check the adjustment of the machines!

Quality... the lack of it!

thank you for your attention Never hate someone, it will cost you more energy than it yields you"

"Always look at everything from different perspectives and do not judge"

"Respect for your fellow man"

"Live with nature, treat her as if it were your child, enjoy of what she can give you "

" Do not worry at night, but sleep and do energy to find the solution to your problem the next day. At night you can do nothing but sleep, there is no one you ask for help, because everyone is asleep. "

The 10 rules of being human......... 1. At your birth you will receive a body that you can find or hate. However, the only thing you can be certain about is that you will keep that body for the rest of your life. 2. You will learn lessons because you are enrolled in the informal full-time school of Life on Planet Earth. Every person or event is your Universal Teacher. 3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trying. 'Failures' are just as much a part of that process as 'Success' is. 4. A lesson is repeated until it is learned and you are brought in different ways. Only when you have learned one lesson can you proceed with the following. You will know that you have learned a lesson when your actions change. Wisdom lies in exercising. A little of something is better than a lot of nothing. 5. If you are struggling with the lessons, they will become heavier. External problems are an accurate reflection of your inner state. Pain is the means by which the universe attracts your attention. When you clear the inner obstacles, the outer world changes with you. 6.
There is no better than the here and now. When your there becomes one here, you will simply get a new one again, which again seems better than the here. 7. Others are just your own views. You can not love or hate something to another unless it reflects something that you love or hate in yourself. 8. Your life is in your own hands. Life provides for the canvas; you paint it! Take charge of your life or someone else will. 9.Whatever you want always comes to you. Unconsciously you determine which forces, experiences, and people you attract. That is why the only fully tested way to find out what you want is to look at what you have. There are no victims, only students. Answers for your questions lie within yourself. You know more than you have heard and read, or that you have been told. All you have to do is watch, listen, and have confidence. 10.

You forget all these wisdoms right after your birth! You actually learn it because society tells you more or less how you should be, how you should respond and what you should do. They teach you to make the choices that are probably not your choices. This happens because you have doubts and so you ask someone else to help you. You can remember it all again, whenever you wish. So learn to find yourself again.

Source: zwartekat.com

Why does everyone only look at appearance?
Maybe there is something very beautiful inside.
That is often the case, so people please look more often than just appearance !!

Those who genuinely do their best should never regret it

............ Words are poison arrows

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