Surprise. Smiles. Courage. Safety.
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Surprise. Smiles. Courage. Safety.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 January 2026 source ↗
The best thing in the world.
Like everything is in high definition, and life is on your side.
Like Celtic hitting the back of the net in the 90th minute of a Champions League football match.
A dizzy flamenco.
Being too thin-skinned.
Scrappy, quixotic, curious.
On X, I am regularly called a traitor, a fraud, a grifter, a weakling, a narcissist, a coward and a child molester.
A painting of a man who was killed on the Dutch coast in 1600.
That I am not wise.
Living in a ski resort.
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