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Month: January 2023

A Little More is Never Enough – The Joys of Sobriety

I love alcohol. I’ve loved it for years and years, too. I love a good wine, a tasty beer.  Whisky and rum, too, I love.  And I love the ritual of it, the unwinding after a stressful day, the ritual of opening a bottle and looking forward to relaxing with it, the chance to allow the mind a moment of oblivion.  I love the enjoyment of it, the sensation of it, the feel of it, the moment when it hits your body and you relax just a little bit, because you’re allowing yourself to relax and giving your body the triggers to do…

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Triskaidekaphobia and fortune in ‘The Hobbit’

It’s been a moment between posts, alas, the end of the year’s always a hot mess for me and completely killed the momentum I was slowly building in posting – and I’ve been completely unmotivated to do anything extracurricular at all for quite a while, blog writing included. I did notice a little detail that can be covered relatively quickly, though, and figured that I might as well jot it down and that it might get the creative juices flowing again!  Namely, the detail of Bilbo being chosen (at least in part) to join Thorin’s Company to avoid their number…

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