this weekend I went to a discount shopping outlet and bought something on a whim with my SO...not the sort of thing we usually buy, because we don't need it, but I'm so glad we did! We bought an African wood carving of a hippo...only about 15 cm tall and 30 cm long, but he's sooo cute. Little things really make all the difference...I love having him in my living room !  Buying him was fun too...the guy selling them was willing to haggle...so in the end we got the sculpture at half price!
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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