a headfull

i played football for the first time in ages. it made me really happy apart from the sunburn and that my body hurts now.
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i went to portugal for lunch. how many people can say that?
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i never noticed the roses before even thought they were always there. their colour reminds me of the strawberry ice-cream someone ate last night except one was natural and the other definitely wasn't. ice-cream should look more... creamy.
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my great aunt is staying in my bedroom. she's 70 and has just walked from Sevilla to Zafra on the pilgrim 'caminos' but then her blisters (which she never normally gets) got so bad that she had to stop. i don't know her very well because she lives in cornwall which is quite far... but now i wish i knew her better. my family is full of characters... especially strong old women! on both sides... my granny is 80 something and went to australia last year. respect.
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i think being 20-something is maybe harder than being something-teen. we thought we'd done our 'growing up' but maybe it's only just beginning.
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Pablo: "what are you going to do?"
me: "tonight? or in life in general?"

buena pregunta. just like: "so what can you do with anthropology?"

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"beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm without and to the storm within, and if we ever are to find true shelter, it it with the recognition of our tragic nakedness and need for true shelter that we have to start"

Frederick Beuchner, 'Telling the Truth', p.33

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