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Aspiring expat. Exploring geopolitics, philosophy, & literature. 🕯️ https://withmapandmug.substack.com/
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Exhausted.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

La vie. “Je ne peux confier à personne la folie que j'atteins au milieu de ces noeuds entremêlés dans les doigts et qui ne sont vrais que pour moi je suis devant un genre de cliché de l'eau et dans milliers de glaciers ça ferait un magnifie tableau je lui dis j'ai peur d'avoir rien compris.”

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.” -Søren Kierkegaard

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Another Shakespearean idiom discovered as I read “Julius Caesar” today. 🏛️

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

One thing I miss about living in New England is how grateful I was when spring would finally start showing up after a long, cold, dark winter: to see things start to bloom & the sun start to shine more often was so much more of a mood booster than it is here in Texas.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

One of the reasons this admin. is horrendous is because they operate from a place of fear. They are trying to forcefully remove people & silence (or shout over) opinions they view as a threat to their ideology. Exceptional governance is rooted in aspirations of harmony & good-will, not fear & hate.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

This essay was inspired by a trip to a local museum and explores how leisure and a more analogue, focused lifestyle is a way to both quietly rebel and find personal growth.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” -Thoreau, “Walden”

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Admiring maps. 🧭

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

More “Middlemarch”.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

“Because we don’t have to devote much conscious effort to the act of walking, our attention is free to wander—to overlay the world before us with a parade of images from the mind’s theatre.”

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Another stunner from today’s visit to the Kimbell Art Museum: “The Geography Lesson” (Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1812)

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Museum day. Quiet day. Stunned to learn that Michelangelo painted this when he was just 13.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Another banger from “Middlemarch”.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Easier said than done, but poignant given the times.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

“Travel is not reward for working, it’s education for living.” -Anthony Bourdain

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

A beautiful record to start the day. 🌞

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

This guy.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

It’s that time of year again.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Evening constitutional.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

My Camus collection so far.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

This, good coffee & a slow Saturday morning.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

“Middlemarch”, in March…& a bit on good taste.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

A view from the office on a (very) slow Monday.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

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“In order to have taste it is not enough to see & to know what is beautiful in a given work. One must feel beauty & be moved by it.” -Voltaire

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submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

From “Middlemarch”. Really enjoying this novel so far. I just feel I need to pick up the pace some & spend more time with it each day…even if it is best read slowly.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Dimanche. 🌞

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 46 days ago • 5 comments

America needs an opposition party badly. I hope at the end of all of this mess, that’s the direction we realise we need to be headed in.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Less phone, more books this weekend.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

As a deeply embarrassed American, I’m glad most people outside of this country remember than a nation’s politicians do not reflect the opinions of every citizen. I take it so personally as someone who loves travelling in Europe & aspires to live there someday. Troubling is not strong enough a word.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments