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“Our actions become our habits.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plato (and many others)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy New Year<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The photo is of Mt Fuji in Japan. It was one of a packet of Mt Fuji postcards. I bought a quite a few and still ran out of postcards before I ran out of people to send them to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Travel is the first stimulus for postcards. A distant second is holidays. Some people buy postcards as mementos and many buy them with the intent of sending them and the urge recedes and they end up in a desk drawer somewhere. There certainly are many less postcards for sale at tourist sites than there were a few years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Change is……<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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