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Todd Hayen, PhD, RP's avatar

CJ...thanks for this...the coffee eating did make me laugh out loud. I totally love your humor. And I agree 100% regarding your assessment of Venice. Your description nailed it. It seems odd and sad that we have reached a point in our "human development" where all the places in the world that were significant enough to be etched in the collective psyche as places "I would like to visit one day" are as you describe. I went to Rome last year and it was a nightmare...as is everywhere I have gone that is as "famous" as Rome is.

There are places you can go where there are not millions of tourists with cell phones...but for the most part they are rather dicey and lack all of the amenities. But then again, isn't that the point of travel? I am reminded of the movie "Sheltering Sky"...a bad movie, but an interesting comment on what travel really used to be like...

I digress. I cannot imagine what you are going through with this persecution, but I suppose it is an indication that your work is actually getting through enough that the "powers" feel the flea bite you have inflicted and have started scratching. Congratulations. I do my little writing on Off Guardian and my substack and I should be so lucky that my work is effective enough that "they" come after me!! Ha ha!! That will be the day.

I wish there was something I could do to help you. You are a true inspiration! Keep up the wonderful, and so so so so important work.

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Margaret Anna Alice's avatar

Now that I’ve recovered from my spit take over “gondolier convention,” I will say I am sorry to hear the monastery was not as restorative as hoped and dearly needed, and I am even sorrier to hear you will soon be back in New Normal Germany. That said, perhaps you will be able to work on an escape plan using your Get-out-of-New-Normal-Germany fund. Just imagine you are a Jew in 1938 Berlin … oh wait, now I’m guilty of relativization, too. Thank goodness, I’m not in Germany.

Regardless, I look forward to the day when we can meet in the forest like The Book People of “Fahrenheit 451”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCaLf7fA07w

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