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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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My Daily Bread Crumbs 10 Dec

December 10th - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Alfred Nobel Day or Nobeldagen (Sweden) Christian feast day: Behnam, Sarah, and the Forty Martyrs (Syriac Orthodox Church)[47] Eulalia of Mérida Karl Barth (Episcopal Church (USA)) Thomas Merton (Episcopal Church (USA)) Translation of the Holy House of Loreto December 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Constitut
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 09 Dec

December 9th - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Anna's Day, marks the day to start the preparation process of the lutefisk to be consumed on Christmas Eve, as well as a Swedish name day, celebrating all people named Anna. (Sweden and Finland) Armed Forces Day (Peru) Christian feast day: Feast of the Conception of the Most Holy Theotokos by St. Anne (Eastern Orthodox Church) Juan Diego Leocadia
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 08 Dec

December 8th - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Battle Day (Falkland Islands) Bodhi Day (Japan) CARICOM–Cuba Day (Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba) Christian feast day: Budoc (Beuzec) of Dol Clement of Ohrid (Julian Calendar), and its related observances: Student's Day (Bulgaria) Eucharius Feast of the Immaculate Conception (public holiday in severa
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 07 Dec

December 7th - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Armed Forces Flag Day (India) Christian feast day: Aemilianus (Greek Church) Ambrose Maria Giuseppa Rossello Sabinus of Spoleto December 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Eve of the Immaculate Conception-related observances: Day of the Little Candles, begins after sunset (Colombia) Flag Base Day (Sci
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 06 Dec

December 6th - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Anniversary of the Founding of Quito (Ecuador) Armed Forces Day (Ukraine) Christian feast day: Abraham of Kratia Aemilianus (Roman Catholic Church) Denise and companions Blessed János Scheffler María del Monte Carmelo Sallés y Barangueras Nicholas of Myra, and its related observances: St Nicholas Day,
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 05 Dec

December 5th - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Abercius Clement of Alexandria (Episcopal Church) Crispina Dalmatius of Pavia Gerbold Justinian of Ramsey Island Nicetius (Nizier) Pelinus of Brindisi Sabbas the Sanctified December 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Children's Day (Suriname)
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 04 Dec

December 4th - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Ada Anno II Barbara, and its related observances: Barbórka, Miners' Day in Poland Eid il-Burbara, a holiday similar to Halloween in honor of Saint Barbara. (Russia, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Turkey) Bernardo degli Uberti Clement of Alexandria (Anglicanism, Ea
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The Unblinking Eye

The Unblinking Eye Once upon a time, the news of the world came to us at the sedate speed of the newspaper man's Linotype. The news of the world would arrive at your door every morning along with sports, comics, book reviews and obituaries. On its way, editors might decide that the typhoon in China or the earthquake in Persia wouldn’t be of interest to local subscribers. Sometimes the images of distant disasters and war took weeks or months to end up before the public.
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 03 Dec

December 3rd - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Abbo of Auxerre Pope Abraham of Alexandria (Coptic, 6 Koiak)) Adrian (Ethernan) Birinus Cassian of Tangier Emma (of Lesum or of Bremen) Francis Xavier Blessed Johann Nepomuk von Tschiderer zu Gleifheim Zephaniah December 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 02 Dec

December 2nd - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Armed Forces Day (Cuba) Christian feast day: Avitus of Rouen Bibiana Channing Moore Williams (Anglicanism) Chromatius Habakkuk (Eastern Orthodox) Nonnus December 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Lao National Day National Day (United Arab Emirates)   Observances (click on the day o
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 01 Dec

December 1st - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Battle of the Sinop Day (Russia) Christian feast day: Alexander Briant Ansanus Blessed Bruna Pellesi Castritian Blessed Charles de Foucauld Edmund Campion Eligius Evasius Grwst Nahum Nicholas Ferrar (Episcopal Church) Ralph Sherwin Urs
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 30 Nov

November 30th - Holidays and Observances (click on the day for details) Bonifacio Day (Philippines) Christian feast day: Andrew and its related observances.[46] Joseph Marchand (one of Vietnamese Martyrs) November 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Commemoration Day (United Arab Emirates) Day to Mark the Departure and Expulsion of Jews from the Arab Countries and Iran (Israel) Independence Day, celebrates the inde
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 29 Nov

November 29th - Holidays and Observances (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Abibos of Nekresi Blessed Bernardo de Hoyos Brendan of Birr Cuthbert Mayne Francis Fasani Illuminata Our Lady of Beauraing Radboud of Utrecht Sadwrn Saturnin November 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) International Day of Solidarity with t
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 28 Nov

November 28th - Holidays and Observances (click on the day for details) Albanian Flag Day, celebrate the independence of Albania from Turkey in 1912, the first Albanian flag raise by Skanderbeg in 1443, and for the new parliamentary constitution in 1998. Bedfordshire day is celebrated in the county of Bedfordshire to celebrate the birth of John Bunyan Bukovina Day (Romania)[18] Christian feast day: Acacius, Hirenarchus, and companions, of Sebaste
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 27 Nov

November 27th - Holidays and Observances (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Acarius of Tournai Barlaam and Josaphat Bilihildis Congar of Congresbury Facundus and Primitivus Humilis of Bisignano James Intercisus Leonard of Port Maurice Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal (Roman Catholic) Secundinus Siffredus of Carpentras
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 26 Nov

November 26th - Holidays and Observances (click on the day for details) Christian feast days: Alypius the Stylite Basolus (Basle) Bellinus of Padua Conrad of Constance Ethelwine of Athelney John Berchmans Pope Siricius Stylianos of Paphlagonia (Eastern Orthodoxy) Sylvester Gozzolini Isaac Watts (Episcopal Church (USA)) November 26 (Eastern Ort
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 25 Nov

November 25th - Holidays and Observances (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Catherine Labouré Catherine of Alexandria and its related observances Elizabeth of Reute Isaac Watts (Lutheran Church and Church of England) James Otis Sargent Huntington (Episcopal Church) November 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Suriname from the Neth
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 24 Nov

November 24th - Holidays and Observances (click on the day for details) Christian feast days: Albert of Louvain Andrew Dũng-Lạc, Pierre Dumoulin-Borie, and other Vietnamese Martyrs Chrysogonus (Roman Catholic Church) Colmán of Cloyne (Roman Catholic Church) Eanflæd Firmina (Roman Catholic Church) Flavian of Ricina (Roman Catholic Church) Flora and Maria Jehu Jones (Lut
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 23 Nov

November 23rd - Holidays and Observances (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Alexander Nevsky (Repose, Russian Orthodox Church) Blessed Miguel Agustín Pro – one of Saints of the Cristero War (Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran Church) Columbanus Felicitas of Rome Paulinus of Wales Pope Clement I (Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, and the Lutheran Church) Trudo (
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Starting Over At 30

I joined GA over twelve years ago when I was just 17 and still in high school. If I think back to that rock bottom point in my life, I would never have imagined then that I'd come to enjoy life as much as I do now. I honestly never thought I'd make it to now, on the brink of turning 30. The last time I wrote a blog entry on here was in August of 2019, a time in my life that was so immensely exciting and filled with never-ending hope for the future. I had met and fell deeply in love with a boy, h
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 22 Nov

November 22nd - Holidays and Observances (click on the day for details) Arbour Day (British Virgin Islands) Christian feast day: Amphilochius of Iconium Cecilia George (Eastern Orthodox, a national holiday in Georgia) Herbert Philemon and Apphia Pragmatius of Autun November 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Day of Justice (Azerbaijan) Day of the Albanian Alphabet (Alba
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 21 Nov

November 21st - Holidays and Observances (click on the day for details) Air Assault Forces Day (Ukraine) Armed Forces Day (Bangladesh) Armed Forces Day (Greece) Christian feast days: Amelberga of Susteren Digain Maurus of Parentium Pope Gelasius I Franciszka Siedliska Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Rufus of Rome (no. 7 in list) William Byrd, John Merbec
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 20 Nov

November 20th - Holidays and Observances (click on the day for details) 20-N (Spain) Africa Industrialization Day (international) Black Awareness Day (Brazil) Children's Day Christian feast day: Agapius Ambrose Traversari Ampelus and Caius Blessed Anacleto González Flores, José Sánchez del Río, and companions (Martyrs of Cristero War) Bernward of Hildesheim Dasius of Durostorum
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