The Permanent Renaissance

Welcome to my blog about how the arts and culture serve to expand our mental horizons. You might find me riffing about almost anything that interests me, which is to say anything multicultural and with some attitude. Typically, that means music, art and architecture, design, wine and food, gadgets and Open Source, science fiction and poetry, museums, or travel. But whatever the ostensible topic at hand, the point will be how it opens up new possibilities for what we can become.

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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

December 31, 2013 at 04:29PM

Had a meal at a sit-down restaurant for the first time in about a year this afternoon. Chicken tikka masala has my fingernails stained orange! I overheard one of the diners there speaking Dutch, so on my way out the door, I wished him a happy New Year: "Goed nieuw jaar, meneer!" This startled him more than I would have predicted. It startled me, too, to be perfectly frank.

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