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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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Continue reading →: Cross-country? Nah.. Bigger!This is exactly why my wife and I set up our Open Road Tales. Not because we wanted to choose a mode of transportation, but because of the adventure of it. Interested?
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Continue reading →: A “Poignant Reminder”?If you tend to watch YouTube over the more traditional TV channels, Netflix, or anything with proper people, you will surely start to recognise a pattern. And the same pattern starts to become visible in written texts as well. The pattern reminds me of a Finnish proverb Fire is a…
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Continue reading →: Ancestral Bear and Rising Dragon?Today’s prompt asked: “Which animal would you compare yourself to, and why?” Growing up in Finland, the obvious choice would be the Bear. But in our tradition, the bear is more than a mere animal; is the physical embodiment of our anceatral pagan beliefs—the “King of the Forest” whose true…
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Continue reading →: The World Is Cold – Grab A BlanketThey say that when you ask, “What’s the last thing you learned?” you should expect a neat little life hack or a piece of trivia with a playful call to action like “grab a coffee and read on.” But lately, life hasn’t been giving out trivia; it’s been giving out…
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Continue reading →: Getting OlderThe “oohs” and “ahhs” when we get up in the morning. And the telltale start of a sentence when mentoring a new colleague: “when I was young…” What does it tell you?
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Continue reading →: The Map I Never Opened: A Journey of TrustI was 15 or 16, alone in London, cutting through Soho with a folded paper map in my pocket. Back then, you didn’t have Google Maps. You had instinct. And paper.
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I’m Khalil
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