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@wakeupkitty · 4 days ago
Imagine
Imagine that you are a columnist and write for the Volkskrant (volk = people). The name already says it, a newspaper for the people. It probably couldn't be better, provided the people also read tha...
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@wakeupkitty · 1 week ago
Not another election
It's almost time! We will vote on Wednesday. Well, we... It's not me. I don't belong to the we-group. "We" does not apply to me. The government, the current, temporary government, is for sure happy...
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@wakeupkitty · 4 weeks ago
Bleak outlook
My eldest asked if I had seen the shower of stars. Before that, she had set the alarm and got up at night to watch it with the children. Starry shower? I don't know anything and honestly, watching it...
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@wakeupkitty · 9 months ago
Be like Billy
B e like him a successful thief steal others' ideas by misleading, manipulating them, be that guy, a total scam. I ndeed you can make others meet the snake in the grass cold, slimy, pale, ready...
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@wakeupkitty · 10 months ago
About meds, bad food x calories
Overweight, those calories are not only caused by unhealthy eating habits, bad meals, excessive eating. Medication, chemicals in your food cause overweight too. You can count calories but even if your...
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@wakeupkitty · 11 months ago
Celebrating
It is getting quiet on the internet and also on this platform Steemit and other social media. Many are busy and by busy, I think of a friend who is always busy all year round. Always there is someo...
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@wakeupkitty · 11 months ago
Porcelain doll
Early in the morning, when I am just awake and still in bed the stories are there. A head full of stories that I don't have time to write. As soon as I get up, the day begins. Duty calls, the children...
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@wakeupkitty · 1 year ago
Best invention
The best invention? Is it the mousetrap or Pied Piper? Water closet or the light bulb? Farm boot or bed? When it comes down to it, everything is a great invention and is not one that has not affected...
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@wakeupkitty · 1 year ago
Rice - this is brutal
I used to eat a lot of rice but in recent years I hardly did. Back then my youngest said rice is food mom eats. Indeed you can wake me up for a bowl of plain rice, but it is no longer my daily meal. T...
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@wakeupkitty · 1 year ago
How do they know?
So far, so good. I manage, we manage and hopefully, the youngest will start with the driving lessons tomorrow. The driving school and its teacher don't seem to care if the passed exams expire. My chil...
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@wakeupkitty · 1 year ago
Food security
Good, bad, healthy, unhealthy. When it comes down to it, pretty much everything we put in our mouths has been called unhealthy. What is unhealthy depends on the food industry. The disc of five, in som...
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@heartbeat1515 · 1 year ago
It is always the issue.
Love is something that we do not need money to get but still, it cost us a lot to maintain. Loyalty, honesty, kindness, empathy, forgiveness, regrets, and bravery to confess mistakes all cost much mor...
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@wakeupkitty · 1 year ago
No native food
It depends on how far back in time you go, but I don't think the Netherlands has native food. Of course, there are certain foods that the Dutch have become known for thanks to art (think of the painti...
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@wakeupkitty · 1 year ago
No whining of an older person
This column is not why she wears white although she isn't a virgin or why he had to propose in this modern time but about changes, different norms and values. I'm sure you agree that everything has ch...
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@wakeupkitty · 1 year ago
Poor manners
If you read this, indeed this isn't fiction but you I'm talking about and Hyacinth would agree with me. The older you get the more you experience and remember the past. Maybe that happens because yo...
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@wakeupkitty · 1 year ago
Everything will be fine
Ideas, plans, their implementation, the final decision that is taken...it is never really clear who decides. Every decision-maker has a boss above him. Someone who pulls the strings makes his puppet m...
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@wakeupkitty · 1 year ago
Network!
"No man is an island." Do you know who said that, in which film this statement is made? If you don't know, it is the film About a boy (2002). If you haven't seen it yet, I recommend you to do s...
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@wakeupkitty · 1 year ago
I have enough
Every now and then I read something and I think I recognise this. The last time I had that was a few days ago. It was about the environmental issue, the CO2 hype and the provoked war that will cause...
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@wakeupkitty · 1 year ago
Dirty tricks / backstabbing
Gazprom announced that due to circumstances they can no longer supply gas to certain countries . Germany is one of them. What those circumstances are apart from pipeline maintenance I will not go into...
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@wakeupkitty · 1 year ago
News
The first known use of triplet was in 1656 It's up to you readers if the end of the triplet is good or bad. Three. Three chances, all good things come in triplets and so does bad and with it death....
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@wakeupkitty · 1 year ago
Ant, Grasshopper or?
I am trying to buy firewood for the coming winter but have forgotten how much I need. The last time I bought firewood was two or maybe three years ago. All I can remember is that in recent years I hav...
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@wakeupkitty · 1 year ago
Money talks
Does it? Most money in circulation does not say a word. It is untouchable and not even longer in the wallet. Instead of money, people walk around with plastic cards. That card is the payment method, a...
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@wakeupkitty · 1 year ago
Free bankaccount
I think we should get a different bank account , my child remarked yesterday. He had read something about the bank where we both have an account. That bank is suddenly changing very quickly and has n...
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@wakeupkitty · 1 year ago
Anatomy of a scandal
This is about a topic that can be hotly debated which isn't my intention. I share my opinion about a Netflix series. It took me some time to watch the miniseries 'Anatomy of a scandal'. I can't tell...
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@wakeupkitty · 1 year ago
The good doctor
A good doctor is hard to find. Just as difficult as a trustworthy person. When it comes down to it, you simply have to be lucky. Happiness when it comes to the interest, expertise and appearance of t...
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@wakeupkitty · 1 year ago
Poor versus rich - Advice
There are many tips and tricks on how to go from being poor to being rich. Is this possible, or rather, has it been possible? "He who neither works nor inherits remains poor until he dies" is a Dutch...
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@wakeupkitty · 1 year ago
Vision - bad eyes
A pair of glasses Are the stories about how to wear spectacles, reading spectacles or spectacles for faraway people true or does every specialist say something different? Anyone who investigates wil...
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@wakeupkitty · 1 year ago
Put your feet up?
New world order on it's way I do at times, especially during cold Winters but today the sun shines unexpectedly (just started after a lot of rain). Suddenly the garden looks green and the grass (an...
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@wakeupkitty · 1 year ago
Everything comes with benefits
Have you ever wondered why we go bald, on our heads that is, but not on our bodies? Even the caveman covered his body in colder regions and a cave is cold but how about the head. A cold on your brai...
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@wakeupkitty · 1 year ago
A good salesman
Is it possible to get rich if you are a honest person? Lately I think a lot about my grandfather or perhaps I should say grandparents since as a couple these two made it and with making it I mean the...
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