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Places, Stories, People!
How To Get Through Tough Times
So, how do I deal with being persecuted by Danish extremists and criminals with links to criminal groupings in France, as well as the Danish police force, which has, truth be told, now and then left me in the dumps? Here’s a brief overview of my method for maintaining balance, a positive spirit, and sanity when the world around you is horrible and sickening!
5 Steps to Lasting Solutions
A reader of this blog wrote me an email with her own story. Reading and responding to this email made me think a bit about what I had actually done to end my stalking nightmare after I realized in late 2019 that you cannot escape gang stalkers. The five steps below constitute the route I have taken to go from an absolute nightmare to what will hopefully be a lasting solution.
A Child’s Logic
Return to Happiness
Life can be a rotten deal sometimes, but that does not mean everything in your life has been bad, even if it feels like that when you are neck-deep in a situation that seems only to be getting worse by the minute. When life is like that, one of the remedies to stay happy can be the psychological trick of an emotional and visual return to happy moments. It is the same as when you fix your computer by returning to the last point where it worked.
My Inner Parisian
You know that feeling when you have lived in a place for years, and it becomes part of your lasting memories, and you give a little extra attention to that place for, I guess, the rest of your life? I feel that way about Paris. I lived and worked in Paris from 2008 to 2014 (excluding an intermezzo). And it was a good life, and I made that iconic city my home. So my soul-big-city-home is still Paris, for better, for worse, until something new comes along to replace it.
Man’s Inhumanity
Despite this history, despite the European nations’ crimes against its Jewish citizens, hatred towards Jewish people and Israel is still very much alive in Europe and, to my alarming knowledge, very often socially acceptable. And in my world, it began in school.
Out Of The Grumpiness
When you lose a dog, it feels like life has ended. You think that you will never, as Lady Gaga sang, love again. But then, one day, suddenly, 1 ½ years after your fur-BFF passed away, something happens. You realize you have returned from the land of perpetual grumpiness.
Gender-Equal?
Some claim Denmark and France are gender-equal and law-abiding nations. I beg to differ, and I do so based on experiences and what I have learned over the years in several apartment buildings in Paris and Denmark.
We Don’t Live in Paradise.
Finding a decent place to live can be and most often is a horrid ordeal in European capitals and big cities, for foreigners and natives alike. And even if you pay sky-high rent, it does not assure that your place is legal or warm in the winter. Some of my former apartments in Paris felt and looked as if they came with the cast of La Bohème and a prescription for tuberculosis!
Friday Feeling
Friday Feeling
Mondays
Gone…
“Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come…
W. H. Auden
My 2023 Plan
Estrangement Will Darken
Over the past months, I have realized that the leap from estrangement to revulsion is very short.
Fall
I Love Stories & The Fall! Not even a private primary school in the 1980s, an almost Marxist high school in the 1990s, nor Comparative Literature studies at an über leftish university in Denmark managed to ruin my love for books, stories, and voices – nor my liberal beliefs and outlook on life. It often felt as if they tried, though.
Don’t Give Me Numbers!
I know it is paw-sible to love a human with all your heart. But I would take a dog over a human any day. Dogs are people, too, and in my opinion, they are much better people than humans. They have bigger hearts, and, unlike most people, they are 100 % loyal.
Why I Still Love Yoga
Few relationships will stand the test of time, but some do. My relationships with Oreo cookies, Hemingway, and yoga have all been part of my life for more than 25 years, and we are still going strong!