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    Talk Talk

    By Aditus

    Conversations. Sometimes it’s too much, sometimes too little, formal, informal, clumsy, artificial, with another word: difficult. Let’s practice, Shall we? #253 Someone is on the bus. The guy beside them fidgets the whole time with an irritating tinkling bangle while telling them, it seems, their entire life story, including very personal things. It’s time to pop in the earbuds. When it’s time to get off the bus, the talker has disappeared and the strange bangle is now on th
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I guess I'm meant to revisit traumatic moments in my life this year.

Many of you know about my friend Steve, who died of a heroin overdose when we were 27 years old in 2013. It was, to say the least, a very painful experience for me, during a very turbulent year and half of my life. I recently got an email from our mutual friend inviting me to a bench dedication they're doing for Steve at a park that was, coincidentally, built near the site where their former dorms were. I mean, I'm going. No doubt about it. I just don't know how I feel about more cryin

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MDBCs 16 Jul 2023

July 16th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Gondulphus of Tongeren Helier Our Lady of Mount Carmel Fiesta de La Tirana (Tarapacá Region, Chile) Reineldis July 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Engineer's Day (Honduras)

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MDBCs 15 Jul 2023

July 15th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Bon Festival (Kantō region, Japan) Christian feast day: Abhai (Syriac Orthodox Church) Anne-Marie Javouhey Bernhard II, Margrave of Baden-Baden Bonaventure Dispersion of the Apostles (formerly by the Catholic Church) Donald of Ogil

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MDBCs 14 Jul 2023

July 14th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Boniface of Savoy Gaspar de Bono Camillus of Lellis (Roman Catholic Church, except in the United States) Deusdedit of Canterbury John Keble (Church of England) Samson Occom (Episcopal Church (United States) July 14 (Eastern Orthodox l

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MDBCs 13 Jul 2023

July 13th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Abd-al-Masih Abel of Tacla Haimonot (Coptic Church) Clelia Barbieri Conrad Weiser (Episcopal Church (USA)) Eugenius of Carthage Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor Mildrith of Thanet Silas

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MDBCs 12 Jul 2023

July 12th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Birthday of the Heir to the Crown of Tonga (Tonga) Christian feast day: Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (Eastern Orthodox) Hermagoras and Fortunatus Jason of Thessalonica (Catholic Church) John Gualbert Louis Martin and Marie-Azélie Guérin

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MDBCs 11 Jul 2023

July 11th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian Feast Day: Benedict of Nursia Olga of Kiev Pope Pius I July 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) China National Maritime Day (China) Day of the Bandoneón (Argentina) Day of the Flemish Community (Flemish Community of Belgium) Eleventh Night (Northern Ireland) Free Slurpee Day (Participating stores of the 7-

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MDBCs 10 Jul 2023

July 10th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Armed Forces Day (Mauritania) Christian feast day: Amalberga of Maubeuge Canute IV of Denmark Rufina and Secunda Seven Brothers Victoria, Anatolia, and Audax July 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Indepe

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MDBCs 09 Jul 2023

July 9th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Arbor Day (Cambodia) Christian Feast Day: Agilulfus of Cologne Amandina of Schakkebroek (one of Martyrs of Southern Hunan) Blessed Marija Petković Everilda Gregorio Grassi (one of Martyrs of Shanxi) Martyr Saints of China

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MDBCs 08 Jul 2023

July 8th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian Feast Day: Abda and Sabas Auspicius of Trier Grimbald Kilian, Totnan, and Colman Saints Peter and Fevronia Day (Russian Orthodox) Procopius of Scythopolis Sunniva and companions Theobald of Mar

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MDBCs 07 Jul 2023

July 7th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Æthelburh of Faremoutiers Felix of Nantes Illidius Job of Manyava (Ukrainian Orthodox Church) Willibald (Catholic Church) July 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Independence Day, celebrates the indep

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MDBCs 06 Jul 2023

July 6th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) The first day of the Festival of San Fermín, which lasts until July 14. (Pamplona) Christian feast day: Maria Goretti Romulus of Fiesole July 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Constitution Day (Cayman Islands) Day of the Capital (Kazakhstan)

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MDBCs 05 Jul 2023

July 5th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Bloody Thursday (International Longshore and Warehouse Union) Christian feast day: Anthony Maria Zaccaria, priest (d. 1539) Cyril and Methodius (a public holiday in Czech Republic and Slovakia) Zoe of Rome (Roman Catholic Church) July 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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MDBCs 04 Jul 2023

July 4th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Andrew of Crete Bertha of Artois Blessed Catherine Jarrige Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati Elizabeth of Aragon (or of Portugal) Oda of Canterbury Ulrich of Augsburg July 4 (Eastern Ort

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MDBCs 03 Jul 2023

July 3rd 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Anatolius of Constantinople Anatolius of Laodicea Dathus Germanus of Man Gurthiern Heliodorus of Altino Mucian Peregrina Mogas Fontcuberta Pope Leo II

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MDBCs 02 Jul 2023

July 2nd 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Aberoh and Atom (Coptic Church) Bernardino Realino Feast of the Visitation (Anglicanism; Levoča at Mariánska hora) Monegundis Otto of Bamberg Oudoceus Martinian and Processus Pishoy

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MDBCs 01 Jul 2023

July 1st 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Aaron (Syriac Christianity) Blessed Antonio Rosmini-Serbati Felix of Como Junípero Serra Julius and Aaron Leontius of Autun Servanus Veep July 1 (Eastern Orthod

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MDBCs 30 Jun 2023

June 30th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Martial Theobald of Provins First Martyrs of the Church of Rome June 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Armed Forces Day (Guatemala) Asteroid Day[42](International observance) General Prayer Day (Central Africa

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MDBCs 29 Jun 2023

June 29th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Cassius of Narni Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (Western Christianity), and its related observances: Haro Wine Festival (Haro, La Rioja) l-Imnarja (Malta) June 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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MDBCs 28 Jun 2023

June 28th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Basilides and Potamiana Irenaeus of Lyon (Western Christianity) Heimerad Blessed Maria Pia Mastena Paulus I Vincenza Gerosa June 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Constitution

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MDBCs 27 Jun 2023

June 27th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Arialdo Crescens, one of the Seventy disciples Cyril of Alexandria (Coptic Church, Roman Catholic Church, Anglican Communion and Lutheran Church) Ladislaus I of Hungary Our Lady of Perpetual Help Sampson the Hospitable

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MDBCs 26 Jun 2023

June 26th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Day of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan Christian feast day: Anthelm of Belley David the Dendrite Hermogius Isabel Florence Hapgood (Episcopal Church) Jeremiah (Lutheran) John and Paul José María Robles Hurtado

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MDBCs 25 Jun 2023

June 25th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Arbor Day (Philippines) Christian feast day: David of Munktorp Eurosia Maximus (Massimo) of Turin Philipp Melanchthon (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) Presentation of the Augsburg Confession (Lutheran) Prosper of Aquitaine

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