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[French word] Rêverie A soft, waking daydream. Rêverie lives somewhere between thought and dream. It is a soft drifting of the mind, unhurried and uncontained. Ideas appear without effort, images overlap, and meaning remains open. It is a quiet interior freedom.

The Visit  The wind blew open the front door  and sat down in my father’s chair. Billy Collins

untrammeled AMERICAN   [uhn-tram-uhld] / ʌnˈtræm əld / especially British, untrammelled ADJECTIVE

[French word] Flâner To wander without purpose or destination. Flâner is the art of wandering without justification. It is movement freed from destination, curiosity released from usefulness. Time loosens its grip, attention widens, and the world begins to offer itself differently. In flânerie, nothing is rushed and nothing is wasted.

[French Word] Émerveillement A lasting openness to wonder. Émerveillement is not a sudden surprise, but a lasting openness to wonder. It is the ability to be moved again, even by what seems familiar. Light, silence, a phrase, a gesture, everything retains the power to enchant. The world stays alive.

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” Ralph Waldo Emerson 

[Enshittification Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse] (although): “There is more love than shit if we dare to look. Foods to love. Dogs to love. People to love. Sunrises to love. Pizza to love. Little jagged pieces of our hearts to love. Quirks of others to love. Literature to love. Bad jokes to love.” Nadia Bolz-Weber

A Memory  It came back to me not in the way a thing might be returned to its rightful owner but like dance music traveling in the dark from one end of a lake to the other. Billy Collins

Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south,Iran to the west, Turkmenistan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, Tajikistan to the northeast, and China to the northeast and east. Occupying 652,864 square kilometers (252,072 sq mi) of land, the country is predominantly mountainous with plains in the north and the southwest, which are separated by the Hindu Kush mountain range. Human habitation…

Now to the land of ‘what if’. The International Flag of Planet Earth. What if there was a symbol that could represent not only the planet where we live, but the residents on that planet, humanity, all life forms, oceans, land. To remind the people of Earth that we share this planet, no matter national boundaries;…