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"Are you also a pickabushnik?"
Google translate. Russian Reddit. How do you go wrong? And clearly I'm inappropriately bored. But there's more. Lot's more. Read them aloud in your best Russian Accent. The auto-translations are gold!!
LINK: https://pikabu.ru/
The Amazonian Travels of Richard Evans Schultes
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One of the 20th Centuries greatest ethnobotanists (??? I KNOW I KNOW WTF) - think Wade Davis and the "Serpent and the Rainbow". Rest assured it's worthwhile.
Reforming Bad Habits
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And that now I should be setting about reforming bad habits, getting back into the routines of meditating, diet, exercise, writing, the new routine of crystal wrapping. There is time, after all, and the excuse of "the hell of other people" is no longer valid.
But it's never quite so easy as you think, once those habits take hold. For example, the inner monologue, it's largely disappeared, formerly rich - in doubt, anxiety, anger, outrage, indignation, but also inspiration and wit, and pass a sober day and wonder where it's gone. A drink, two, and there it is again. I've reset my baseline, and not in a good way.
And the exercise - easy enough when I'm working, or on a mission to gather some rocks, explore some caves or mountains, but now, here, in the perpetual poverty of EI/CERB and rationed gas, food, well, not so. Winter is not my season.
But, nose to the grindstone, a little over two months (guaranteed) left, and I'd better get my shit together...
2 Foreigners and their 4 Pets
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2 Foreigners have come to visit, giants, huge beards, covered in runic tattoos. Norse, maybe, or Quebecois, they've thick, unidentifiable accents, and they have 4 small pets between them, and they are wrapped up for the children (not mine), one bends down and pulls off the wrapping. The two in the center, yappy cute puppies of the breeds favoured by old ladies. The one on the left, a tortoise, and it's head comes out of it's shell, poised upon a long neck it catches me with it's eye, a smart, intelligent eye.
And, finally, the last one on the right is unwrapped, it's some sort of giant flattened rat, I have no clue what it is, and I'm returning from this meadow back to the house, home, but not my house, the kids have gone off to play with the animals, parents, my father, people, this house like a stage with sets that roll in and out...
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My dreams lately, anxiety dreams, waiters nightmares, tables coming in, new job, being lost and utterly confused, not knowing what it is I'm to be doing...this is the first one worth writing down, and it isn't much, but resuming the habit will probably breed more interesting dreams.
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