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ASTROPHILE

: one fond of star lore. There’s a special little town in South Africa that my soul has been longing for, Sutherland. This photo is from one of my last visits, at night it almost feels like you are lying underneath a tree when you are staring up at the night sky.

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WANDERING

1: moving from place to place without a fixed plan; roaming; rambling. A few days short of my twenty-sixth birthday, with a freshly shattered heart, I found myself in need of escape from the repetitive reminders of the end of a chapter of my life. Cornered in the overcrowded heart of Johannesburg, I reached out to my friend Benjamin, who just so happened to then be living in a small, almost…

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Sometimes, all you have to do is look up.

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ASSIMILATION

3: the process of adopting the language and culture of a dominant social group or nation, or the state of being socially integrated into the culture of the dominant group in a society. Looking into French history can be quite daunting, but extremely fascinating at the same time. Assimilating to the French way of life is never complete without a basic understanding of French history. There have…

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Time Warp

(especially in science fiction) an imaginary distortion of space in relation to time whereby people or objects of one period can be moved to another. If a tree was planted every time I wished to travel back in time, I would have my own personal Amazon forest-sized forest, you would be welcome to visit of course. I’ve been obsessed with the idea of time travel for as long as I can remember. I…

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REMINISCENCE

1: a story told about a past event remembered by the narrator. 2: a characteristic of one thing that is suggestive of another. The Red Pub – by JC Uys III In 2015 I was fresh out of University, working in a dinky bar on the outskirts of the Red Light District of Amsterdam, The Red Pub. Quite the historic little bar, having served as the headquarters for a secretive resistance of Dutch, during…