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What makes me smile (travel edition)

  • The prospect of meeting my family soon.
  • The surprising sight of newly fallen snow on the way out of Oslo.
  • Noticing, right after the airport security check, that I still had a half-full bottle of water with me.
  • Discovering a magazine I had liked before (‘samtiden’), and buying it.
  • Starting to read that magazine and, again, being delighted by its quality.
  • A pear, an apple, and raw cashew nuts.
  • A sunbath for face and mind on the plane, for two hours straight.
  • The sense that, landing in Salzburg, I understood what my singing teacher had talked about: the deep feeling of coming home (as expressed, in his case, by the song ‘Ved Rundarne’).

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