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📖 The Sleeping Beauty of Bruxelles 🏰

by WJJH
Posted on November 4, 2025

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📖The Mob Boss and His Golden Tower 🗼

by WJJH
Posted on October 14, 2025October 14, 2025

Summary: Reflections from the eighth decade — on life, culture, and the state of the world. This blog offers quiet observations, drawn from a lifetime of watching, questioning, and remembering. The sun lowers, but still gives light.

Quote of the week: From Arthur Schopenhauer, used in "Ukraine, Crimea, and the Illusion of Victory."

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