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Memories are made from these


The slimster recently read, somewhere, that during the pandemic the best way to deal with solitude, enforced through the present lockdown, is via humour and music. Well, as Homer, the TV cartoon guy, not the Greek poet, would say - Doh! The former is not the slender one’s forte, obviously, but without the latter the lean machine might just go nuts. Or ballistic. Neither option is good. But to create the endorphins needed to feel good, both are much sought after. Not nuts, fer heavens sake, although they do taste swell. Unsalted, please.
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A good mood needs balance. (And funny. Or is it funnily. The onset of senescence might thus be delayed. Although, as the significant one often remarks, how could she tell if that is the case?) As is well known, with the advance of aging, memories from one’s youth become more pronounced. Nowhere more, for this gracile guy, than with music, especially popular songs. It is amazing, how many lyrics are stored in the memory bank, brought up immediately upon listening to just the first notes of a song. From the fifties on, up until the mid-eighties.(Read more: Estonian Life No. 18 2021 paber- and PDF/digi)Otepää Slim, Toronto

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