These people are Kukeri. They chase the evil spirits around Christmas but also on any occasion imaginable.
Category: Random
Staircase to Summer
With a little fellow so smol he’s barely there.
What does it mean to be a kid at heart?
Kids play and act like everything is guaranteed to be alright. They hold onto items worth nothing and make it feel like they’re worth everything. Kids smile and cry. They make friends quickly. They fight, forgive, forget, and fight again. They are impatient.
I think most of these qualities are lost for a good reason. But we can smile more and live for the moment when appropriate. We can read books and relive the fun, ignoring the not-fun. We can play.
Have I shared that there will be a new HoMM game next year? I’ll block some time on my calendar to feel like a 15-year-old when it goes live 🙂
Why Doesn’t Offler Forbid Chocolate?
Offler is the Crocodile God from Discworld. He is known for his crocodilian features, mumbling speech, and pragmatic rules. He knows how to keeps his followers. One of the pillars of his faith is that he wouldn’t impose a ban on chocolate because people wouldn’t listen anyway.
Nuggan, the God of paperclips and unnecessary paperwork, forbids Chocolate. Chocolate, among other 100s of things, is an abomination, perhaps because it stains the unnecessary paper. Funnily, as a result of that, his country is a main exporter of chocolate.
The book, although I don’t quite remember which one, implies that a God who forbids chocolate will eventually be forgotten and replaced by another God who doesn’t forbid chocolate. Nuggan, as of the last Discworld novel, is still around. He outlived his creator, Sir Terry Pratchett, and the spiritual disconnect between him and Offler remained unresolved.
Why I’m writing all of that? Spent last 24 hours wtf-ing with Bulgarian election news. There’s no Offlers in our political scene.
Do lazy days make you feel rested or unproductive?
I have unproductive days when I can’t figure out where did all my time go. I don’t think I often have lazy days, assuming lazy means inactive. All the days feel so full of todo items, including weekend and vacation days.
I also push us to do the 10k steps per day, which doesn’t encourage inactivity.
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