Skywatch Friday and some prose

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We had a couple of nice, relatively warm, days in Amsterdam. Although tonight (March 13th) it will freeze again.

Here's some Amsterdam architecture for you:

Historically houses in the centre are not very wide. Coming from the days house owners were taxed on the width of their house. Hence the stairwell is quite small too. Leading to large hooks sticking out at the top. To haul in furniture through the windows.

I live on the edge of the old center. This canal marks the border of where the city used to end:

One of my favourite spots to hang at my evenening walks. Hanging over the railing of a bridge, enjoying a sunset:

There used to be a church here but people started believing in other things. In this instance the church building was too far gone to patch up and get a new purpose. To commemorate they've build in a clock at the spot where the old church tower with clock and bells was:

A typical example of a 'postzegelpark', a 'stamp park', also known as 'pocket park'. There's dozens of them througout the city to give people some place to breathe. Literally. Do you have much 'green' in the area where you live?

The same park from a different angle. Just recently cleaned up and redone. It used to be the graveyard, belonging to the church in one of the pictures above.

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Here's a poem I woke up from a dream with a recent night, still half asleep:

As the screams got louder (a #CirclePoem)

As the screams got louder

and the hours grew weaker,

thunder clapped

like eyes closed in the rain

and footsteps became memories 

as the only way

to tell time

was counting 

the number of tears

and cats on the rooftop

between here and now 

and darkness approached 

as the screams got louder

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Living outside society

Perhaps it's time for an actual, good old fashioned 'revolution of the people'. To get people in power who actually know what it's like to be 'the people'. 

A revolution does not always have to be violent; there are many ways to protest tyranny. Like this one:

People like President Trump and former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak are absolutely [useless] clueless about actual life outside their palaces.

They actually seem to think every single millionaire is a decent person "because they have a lot of money, just like we do." Latest evidence for this rather silly idea: Krasnov introduced 'the Gold card'; a 'green card' for millionaires. Everyone who gives him 5 million dollars gets to enter the USA. Even if they're rapists, frauds and human traffickers. That it's illegal to simply sell immigration papers, does not matter to tyrants. 

My apologies to wappies: the article in question contains a lot of words. Some even have three syllables or more. 

From their privileged position 'the elite' think not having Sky Channel as a kid is considered 'hardship' (Sunak) or that it's normal to state you dislike nepotism but give your son-in-law a job in your government. Like Trump did. Just like he thinks it's normal to want to frack your own daughter and let her sleep in the White House instead of your wife.

Wappies like to defend their Great Leader's ('Führer' in German) behaviour with: "Yeah, but Biden once sniffed a girl's hair and his son got business deals, just because of his last name!" As if Trump's children didn't. 

If your country gets new 'management' and you personally could choose, would you go for a multimillionaire despote who has already proven he would mainly enrich himself and his family and business partners (despotes never have actual friends), a highly educated person who might mean well but is actually out of touch with society and reality or someone else entirely?

Would you yourself make a great President? Why?

Think about it with your country's next elections.

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