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Here in Holland we use no window coverings, though from where I presently sit I can see dozens of other apartments. There’s a cultural norm that you must have something to hide if you draw the curtains; which is only “normal” for bedrooms at night.

Thanks for sharing this little appreciation of your place on Earth. It caused me to pause and consider for a moment how special my own is, too.

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~inquiry wrote:

(Huh... never noticed before that 'Holland' begins with 'Holla' :-) )

It's kind of a weird thing how "special" is - for me - proportional to the inverse of "amount of thoughts-about", such that incoming sensory data is essentially miraculous until I start thinking about it, each subsequent thought-about removing a brick of the initial miraculousness until there's seemingly nothing left but modeling (aka "knowing") obscuring said miracle....

Something like that. :-)

But, hey... so window-covering sanity in Holland? I do tend to imagine greater sanity in places other than the United States, where stupidity worship competes with money worship to undermine quality of life.