> _Pain is often a trampoline that will launch us into our next stage of life, if we're willing to let it._
>
> -- still Ashley Stahl
> _People who call themselves realists are often just dreamers who gottheir hearts broken somewhere along the way._
>
> -- [Ashley Stahl/TEDx talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRtBHF-WPpM)
> _It’s okay to walk away from toxicity, regardless of the source._
>
> -- Robin Stern, [Gaslighting explained](https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/12/19/18140830/gaslighting-relationships-politics-explained)
Just caught this in the morning on DLF Kultur while walking the dog. Now listening to the YouTube mix playlist. This band deserves more attention. At least in my musical world...
# First Aid Kid: My Silver Lining
# Faithless: God is a DJ
> God is a DJ
>
> -- Faithless: God is a DJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ltoAcZrjBw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhSB8EEnCAM
Number of letters in each European Country in their alphabet.
https://mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com/post/167046136459/number-of-letters-in-each-european-country-in
Exploring, failing, backtracking, just to identify the only viable path forward. And then scarred, stumbling forward into the future. Learning.
Boring and steady. Knowing little and questioning a lot. Mostly harmless.
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This is an experimental scrapbook space. A collection of stuff I want to keep in a form somewhere on the spectrum between a blog and a shoe-box full of scraps, cut-outs, quotes, links and reading notes and sometimes my own silly thoughts about them.
Perhaps it might be of marginal interest to others too, but I don't care that much.