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Continue reading →: People 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️During this year’s Pride Month I want to try to explain what PRIDE means for me. Whilst researching for this blog text, I noticed that there are so many different meanings for PRIDE, but many of them were actually made up of sentences. But for me, each letter should have…
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Continue reading →: Take Pride? 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Welcome, June! The month of Juno, goddess of childbirth and fertility. The month that has Midsummer in the Northern hemisphere and Midwinter in the Southern hemisphere. But it is also the month that carries all the colours of the rainbow with it – the Pride Month! Each year, it seems…
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Continue reading →: Say NO to Phobias! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️17th of May is more than the Constitution Day in Norway (hooray for Norwegians!). It also commemorates the day when World Health Organisation (WHO) removed homosexuality from the list of mental disorders back in 1990. And thus, the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia (IDAHOBIT) was born.
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Continue reading →: What Makes a Person Unique?What a fantastic prompt today! This is a topic that has been circling around my brain recently, especially as I write about travel, geopolitics, and the small ways we can, and should, prepare for a world that isn’t as stable as it still pretends to be. Come, and read more…
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Continue reading →: More About TravellingI don’t think this blog would have come into existence if I didn’t love travelling. Ever since I was a wee boy, I’ve travelled the world. The first trip that I can even very vaguely remember was a trip from Finland to Hawaii, and it must have been nearing the…
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Continue reading →: Palestine ≠ Israel, or…?With the possible exception of small indigenous tribes in small islands or in the middle of a jungle, most of the globe is aware of the war in the Palestine-Israel region of the Middle East. We have been told that it is “complicated,” but is it really?
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Continue reading →: “Coffee, Tea, or Follow My Orders!”Today’s prompt actually hit some, even if I left the profession 14 years ago. I am, of course, talking about Cabin Crew, or Flight Attendants for your Americans out there. More importantly, I am talking about the fact, that we are not there just to serve you coffee.
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Continue reading →: Just One KissSome time ago I was waiting to board a plane, and whilst waiting for the queue to move, passengers from another plane disembarked. Amongst them, across the glass wall separating departing passengers from the arriving ones, I spotted a gay couple, and their quick kiss made me feel all warm…
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Continue reading →: How to Travel in 2026, eh?Sometimes, it seems, it would be “business as normal” should we be living in the North or South America. But if you are living in Europe, Asia, or Oceania, and in parts of Africa, travel at the moment is… troublesome.
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Continue reading →: “I liked you better…”In the grand scale of things, this happened fairly recently. Back in 2012 to be exact. At first I was baffled, and got taken aback by this… but later I realised it would be a compliment—even if it wasn’t meant to be one.
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I’m Khalil
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