“I can’t see anything. I’ve got the bows up… I’m going!” -Donald Malcolm Campbell, CBE, British Land and Water Speed Record Breaker

Yesterday, I bid adieu to Hamburg Germany for what might be the last time, at least in the sense of living there. The city was nice but it was just absolutely not for me. I couldn’t handle the massive city, with no escape. I felt locked into a concrete jungle and caged into a loud, grey, starless world. In addition to that, it rained all the time, and not even consistently, which somehow might have been better.

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“It’s very beautiful over there.” -Thomas Edison, American Inventor

Trains are so lovely. I always listen to music while on them because I enjoy being able to block out the chatting of people around me so I can focus on the scenery flying by. Germany does not have the fastest trains in Europe but I kind of like that. I am happy that I can read a short sign or some graffiti as we roll through the country or past cities. The countryside of Germany is absolutely gorgeous in the late fall. Everything is bright orange and yellow with hints of green still persisting and fighting the cold. You get an extended period of fog in the valleys through the majority of the mornings and that fog even creeps into the cities.

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“Dêem-me café, vou escrever!” Translation from Portuguese: “Give me coffee, I’m going to write.” -Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet

This is a sequel to my previous blog post: Constrained and as last time, I will number the little things I write, then after all the short stories, I will list the constraints.

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“But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptised of thee, and comest thou to me? And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Hear now—permit it. Do not restrain me!” -Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian Novelist

Today is an experiment, in short, constrained writing. I will number each little writing I make, I don’t know how many I will do, but I will not tell you the constraints before you read it, however, I will include the description of the constraints at the bottom of the post.

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“I created a flag from the sport’s dignity. I oversee the name of my family with affection, steady nerves and blood.” -Hélio Gracie, co-founder of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

If you are reading this today, 12 November, you are reading the first blog post on my new website on the day of its creation. I spent all day creating, configuring and migrating files from my previous blog to this new one. I am at a place where I am happy with it and I am actually incredibly proud of how it looks.

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