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Saturday, September 5, 2009

Hurdles galore.

Do you ever get the feeling that life’s a hurdle race? Not just exhausting like the one depicted in the following cartoon, but nerve-wracking as well: http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/h/hurdle_race.asp No, I have not taken up athletics. I’m just a spectator, but spectators can be on tenterhooks... Sign in to see full entry.

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Social networks and social needs.

Vogue’scomment to my last post made me ponder about how social networks could befuture life lines for the old and the lonely. ‘Nobodywill ever give me a morning call when I'm really, really old, so I betterpolish up on my computer skills and, in a moment of need, can click, click tomy blogit... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, September 4, 2009

Click, I'm alive!

High standards of living and health care mean that the population in Denmark is getting older and older. This means that many more of us, even if we are alone, can continue living in our own homes until the undertaker comes; this is considered both a right and a duty. To make this work the community... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, September 3, 2009

Red balloons for shame and hope.

Yesterdayevening many Copenhagen citizens turned out to demonstrate against thedeportation of Iraqi asylum seekers. Background information: http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/article780036.ece http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/article768157.ece http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/article767127.ece We... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Graffiti dialogue.

Irritation about graffiti is one of the bees in my bonnet. This is a sequel to Sunday’s blog: http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/elinjo/626078 Now it is not because I hate all graffiti. Some months ago I took the following photo of graffiti on the Berlin wall because I think it is beautiful and... Sign in to see full entry.

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My background is cosmopolitan and this will be reflected in the contents of this blog. Originally I filed it under the category fiction, however have decided to move it to 'Everything else', because it includes many different genres from short stories to essays, poetry, social comments and autobiographical sketches.

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