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  In the house where your sadness is a nuisance and your anger a silence nobody bothers to acknowledge, the currency of belonging is not honesty but performance.  A bright laugh that rang a little too early, a clever remark that landed before the conversation had fully formed, a face that seemed to glow with genuine pleasure at your arrival—these are the tokens that bought you a seat at the table.  The moment you cross the threshold, the walls already know the script you are supposed to follow; they measure you by the sparkle of your entrance, not by the weight of the stories you carry beneath it. The rule is simple: first impressions matters more than the tangled truths that linger in the corridors of your mind.  A reputation, in that environment, is a story told by other people—a montage of snapshots that never quite captured the pauses, the sighs, the moments when the mask slipped. And once the story left the mouths of the gossiping guests, you no longer hold the ...
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Weeks of "fire"

These have been two weeks of incredibly high temperature. June is never so hot! It was like being in July and August. 

But from today heavy rains are expected. Therefore today may become the worse day: when the fiery hot weather doesn't want to give in and fights its extreme battle to predominate.

On one side Summer is advancing with great boldness and on the other  dawn is receding. The earliest sun rising was at 5.36 (i.e. 4.36 solar time) on the equinox, the 21st of June. Now, on the last day of June it is already 4 minutes later, at 5.40 (4.40 solar time).

I get up very very early, usually at 5, but often even earlier, and I like to spy on the rising sun. For me it's an event that makes me happy. Especially in Spring when dawn comes earlier and earlier. 

Then the equinox arrives and the next cycle begins, with its slowing down. And somehow it's a paradox, because it is exactly when the strength of the sun is instead increasing! It feels strange inside... 


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