Breaking the Crust

Colonel Timothy Hodgetts, who is the Medical Director of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps, will be publishing a book in March 2014 on war poetry. The book will gather some of the new poems he wrote during his missions in the Middle-East and in Europe. He is the only military man in England to have used war poetry to cure Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Two of the poems he wrote in the beginning of his career are displayed in the National Army Museum. 

This rewarded British Colonel has been exposed to terrorism and has directed emergencies operations from 1988 to 2013, particularly in Germany, Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan. He became the Medical Commander in the Rescue during the 1991 bombing in Northern Ireland when a bomb exploded at a military hospital while he was working there. He has an extensive experience in treating casualties in conflict and post-conflict insurgencies. 

During our interview, he underlined the importance of releasing the pain of all the horrific scenes he witnessed during his missions around the world. He has experienced Post-traumatic Stress and regularly describes the hardships he overcame through medical journals: “I write about it in medical journals, so that other people can learn about it, but it’s also a way to get it out of your chest”.  

A few years later, he found another way of releasing the emotionally charged and traumatic experiences he went through: “I have been writing war poetry for over 10 years and some of it is pretty dark,” he said. In deed, he wrote numerous poems during or sometimes after his missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. According to him, poetry is “a useful art form of war,” as it represents “reality”.

 In Britain he is the only military man who had the idea of writing war poetry to heal the scars of war. However, some of his fellow doctors decided to paint after coming back from war.

Here is the link to a video of Colonel Hodgetts reading his new poem “Dressing the dead”, which hasn't been published yet : http://youtu.be/g0CzdRRU__A

By Eugénie Lambert.

As the US debt ceiling deadline is approaching quickly, both members of the House of Representatives and the Senate are working towards an agreement on the budget.

Even though the Democratic members of the House of Representatives just rejected the Republicans’ fiscal plan, a group of twelve Democratic and Republican senators are working hand-in-hand on a deal to end the federal government shutdown.

Amy Brundage, the White House spokeswoman pointed out the efforts made by the Senate: “Democrats and Republicans in the Senate have been working in a bipartisan, good-faith effort to end the manufactured crises (…). With only a couple days remaining until the United States exhausts its borrowing authority, it’s time for the House to do the same”.

Senator Susan Collins from Maine, who is currently one of the leaders of the bipartisan group, is also the leading moderate Democrat in the United States Senate. She just introduced a budget plan that was first rejected by the White House, but then reconsidered as the basis of the group discussion. The plan discussed aimed at funding the government through March, raising the debt ceiling enough to last through January and giving time to negotiate a longer-term budget. Finally, the plan would have left “Obamacare” alone, but would have replaced for two years a device tax that would help fund the law.  “Although Senator Collins is a Republican, she always votes her conscience, ever-mindful of what is best for Mainers and Americans. Because of her independent and moderate philosophy, she sometimes crosses party lines to vote with Democrats”, said Mary Dietrich, Sen. Susan Collins Chief of staff.

Senator Collins has never been blamed for being part of bipartisan committees by always making sure to represent Maine’s interests, which tends to be a Democratic-leaning state.“She is one of my favorite senator”, said the Senate Democrat leader Harry Reid. This statement can probably be justified by the fact that she has very often taken part into bipartisan negotiating committees. In deed, she joined the bipartisan group to oppose the “Partial birth-abortion Act”, and was the first Republican to vote for the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Repeal Act of 2010. 

Groups of moderates emerged during the post-WWII era in the Congress, and fought to find a middle ground by searching for points of compromise. In the past 10 years, those groups have disappeared and that is to blame on the polarization of American politics.
Members of the House of Representatives are often representing homogenous blocks of voters, namely either belonging to “pure” left or right wing. “With our system of democratic government: a Democratic President, a Republican House, and a Democratic Senate, it is essential that all three find ways to compromise to move legislation forward”, added Senator Collins’ chief of Staff.

This bipartisan way of solving divergences of opinion amid political debates is frequently used for urgent matters, as can be seen from the “Gang of 14” Congress leaders, which broke the deal that took off the table the “nuclear option” in 2004.

The question of the installation of “Drug consumption rooms” in France, has never been more at stake than today.

Drug Consumption Rooms (DCR) are, by definition, rooms where drug users can consume drugs in a safe and healthy environment, enjoying the sanitary as well as social support offered by nurses. Drug Consumption Rooms aren’t allowed yet in France, but were discussed and reintroduced into the debate in late October by Marisol Touraine - the French minister for Health in France.

In order to understand what are the issues of the debate, it should be made clear to first wonder about several points.

1 – What are the main goals of these “consumption rooms”?

The significance of such a process remains in different points.

First, it will effectively prevent drug consumers from transmitting diseases such as HIV, or severe hepatitis. Along with preventing transmission, it will reduce the number of infections contracted by drug addicts.
By reducing infections and transmissions of diseases, it will inevitably decrease the number of death by overdose, and this way the mortality rate of drug users.
Another concern aimed by the European Health policies is to secure the schools, and families areas by getting rid of syringes on the pavements or in the staircases of buildings, avoiding the impact on children of the sight of consumers taking drugs on the streets, but also controlling and securing criminality in cities.
Finally, DCR would lead to healing, by providing consumers therapy solutions, in order to quit taking drugs.

 Those rooms were settled in several different European countries. Indeed, while traveling through Europe you might find ones in Norway (1 DCR), Germany (26 DCR), Switzerland (13 DCR), Spain (17 DCR), Netherlands (37 DCR), Luxembourg (1 DCR).
Netherlands has the biggest number of DCR in Europe, which is not really surprising for a country that has legalized and turn a blind eye on the use of certain drugs. 

However, one burning question obsesses me: what is the outcome of such a process? Is it properly used, and has it kept its ambitious promises?

The outcome of such a process seems to be mitigated. For instance, in Spain, there are lots of testimonies of drug addicts who first headed to those consumption rooms, to finally end up in therapy rooms. However, in Canada, the number of deaths by overdose remains the same.

2 – Why is this question still debated if it’s supposed to fulfill its goals ?

First of all, a mess of people think that these rooms are the consequence of a great hypocrisy. Indeed, allowing drug addicts to use their drugs legally in certain rooms is just like turning a blind eye on drugs legalization, by providing them the tools to use them properly. Thus, it can be considered as an incitement to use drugs, but also as radically discordant with the fight against drugs.
It is all the more surprising as no one wants to know where the drugs come from: in other words you’re not allowed to buy or sell drugs, but you’re allowed to use them in those rooms.
Likewise, DCR aren’t interpreted as a perfect example of public morals and ethics: like John Stuart Mill would say “One person's freedom ends where another's begins”. Judging from the introduction of those rooms all around Europe, it can be noticed that a mini-criminality emerged around those places, by gathering together more and more dealers.

On another note, the financial backlashes of this process are considerable : the fittings would cost between 300 000 and 1 million euros each.

Finally, we may wonder whether this process would lead to engage the State’s responsibility. For instance, if a drug addict dies in a center while using drugs, will the state be responsible for his death?

Likewise, if a consumer kills someone on the street after taking his drug in the room, will the state be responsible for the death of this innocent person? Judging from their behavior after taking drugs, should the state consider consumers as mentally disabled?

In a nutshell, “Drug consumption rooms” are consequently a source of numerous interrogations, which remain unsolved. Because these questions can’t be answered yet, and by weighing the pros and cons, I believe that governments aren’t the most likely to judge and decide whether instituting this process.

The main issue of this debate can basically be summed up by questioning ourselves on whether an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. On the one hand, governments that opt for instituting these DCR, choose to prevent diseases to be transmitted or death to occur. But on the other hand, choosing not to legalize those rooms, would be a better way to find real cures to drug addiction issues.

Regarding this specific Health-law-projet, I would rather cure than prevent.

To look deeper into this subject here are useful links about DCR in Europe :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdlKsmJ2rRw

http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/attachements.cfm/att_2944_EN_consumption_rooms_report.pdf

Ca y est la flamme des jeux olympiques et paralympiques est bel et bien éteinte ! Revenons sur cet événement, qui suscite depuis sa création, l’enthousiasme de toutes les nations. 
Les Jeux Olympiques depuis leur apparition en Grèce jusqu’à leur réinstauration par Pierre de Coubertin quelques siècles plus tard n’ont eu de cesse d’attirer de plus en plus de spectateurs, fascinés par cet évènement à la fois grandement impressionant et émouvant.
Les jeux olympiques ont été ouverts aux femmes pour la première fois en 1900 avec seulement 19 femmes parmi les 1225 athlètes décomptés au total. Pierre de Coubertin n’y était pas favorable et déclara à l’ouverture des jeux olympiques de Stockholm en 1912 qu’ "une olympiade femelle serait impratique, inintéressante, inesthétique et incorrecte. Le véritable héros olympique est, à mes yeux, l'adulte mâle individuel. Les JO doivent être réservés aux hommes, le rôle des femmes devrait être avant tout de couronner les vainqueurs".
Loin de tous les débats et réformes actuelles en faveur de l’égalité des sexes, un tel discours serait aujourd’hui largement condamnable et controversé. Cependant, même si les mœurs semblent s’être adoucies en vertu de l’égalité hommes-femmes, les jeux olympiques restent le théâtre d’un combat inachevé pour la reconnaissance du sport féminin. 

Alors en quoi le sport féminin pratiqué à haut niveau fascine-t-il moins que le sport masculin ?

1 – Cherchons d’abord les raisons de cette tendance

En effet, c’est un constat plus qu’accablant, qui se trouve parfaitement illustré par des sports tels que le football ou le basketball.
En Europe, le football est un sport hypermédiatisé, qui grâce aux équipes des grandes villes européennes, fait rêver chaque année des millions de supporters. Les sommes mises en jeu par ces clubs sont colossales : le dernier investissement du PSG (Paris-Saint-Germain) a été le transfert du joueur Zlatan Ibrahimovic, qui leur a couté la modique somme de 13 millions d’euros. Une chose est sure, avec de tels enjeux financiers, devenir footballeur donne des ailes et regarder de tels athlètes performer dans le monde entier rempli immanquablement toutes les arènes, les postes de télévision, les unes des journaux, les magasines et émissions sportives et les chaines de TV.
En revanche, le plus haut salaire d’une joueuse de l’équipe féminine du PSG s’élève en moyenne à 8000 euros, soit 145 fois moins cher que le salaire de Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Il en va exactement de même aux Etats Unis avec les grands clubs de NBA qui obtiennent des joueurs pour des sommes astronomiques, alors qu’il n’existe pas réellement d’équivalent de la NBA pour les femmes.

Au-delà du frein pécuniaire, empêchant grandement le sport féminin de se faire connaître et surtout d’être apprécié à sa juste valeur, d’autres facteurs entrent en compte. Ainsi, la mentalité sportive démontre une tendance, encore aujourd’hui, un brin machiste.

Ce machisme incurable et bien ancré, peut se justifier par plusieurs raisons :

-       L’homme étant plus fort que la femme physiquement, les records masculins seront toujours supérieurs aux records féminins et donc plus appréciés du public.

-       Certains sports pourraient laisser croire à une masculinisation des femmes comme par exemple le lancer de poids, le judo, etc. Ces sports pourraient être considérés comme masculins par origine, et la transformation du corps de la femme vertueuse, féminine et apprêtée en femme musclée, pourrait paraître aux yeux de certains comme non esthétique.

-       Enfin, les femmes s’intéresseraient moins que les hommes au sport, et ne seraient donc pas de potentielles spectatrices et supportrices des exploits féminins. 

2 – Quel avenir pour le sport féminin ?

Des tempéraments existent bel et bien à cette tendance, et c’est tant mieux ! 
Le tennis est par exemple une discipline au sein de laquelle les femmes sont presque autant admirées que les hommes.

D'autre part, de grandes figures du sport féminin ont permis de construire une image de l’athlète femme, forte, puissante, persévérante et… belle !
Ainsi, Ellen Mc Arthur, l’un des premières femmes à avoir traversé l’Atlantique très jeune, en a fait rêvé plus d’un par son passé. Cette anglaise passionnée de voile, collectionnait précieusement ses tickets de cantine afin de pouvoir s’offrir son premier dériveur !
Laure Manaudou, si elle ne rayonne plus vraiment dans les bassins, brille désormais sur les arrêts de bus et spots publicitaires. Elle reste pourtant l’une des plus grandes championne de natation que nous ayons connu en France, et ce tout en restant féminine : elle a beau être extrêmement musclée et avoir un dos digne de toutes les grandes nageuses, lorsqu’elle saute dans les bassins à chaque coin du monde, elle a toujours les ongles faits, et un léger hâle doré qui épouse parfaitement sa peau. Preuve que la féminité peut bel et bien se combiner avec le sport !

Je terminerai sur un exemple qui m’a tout particulièrement marqué : il s’agit de l’athlète paralympique et égérie de L’oréal « Aimee Mullins ». Cette athlète a su faire face à son handicap avec panache, et a usé de sa féminité et de sa beauté comme un réel atout.
Aimee Mullins est une athlète paralympique qui est née sans la partie inférieure de ses jambes, et pourtant elle a su tourner ce handicap en… avantage ! Loin des hôpitaux et fauteuils roulants,  elle se déhanche dans les stades et sur les podiums avec des prothèses sportives ou esthétiques qui lui permettent d’user de ses jambes normalement et de lui donner la taille qu’elle veut !
De nombreux progrès ont été observés quant à l’évolution de la reconnaissance et de la notoriété des jeux paralympiques depuis les JO de Londres 2012. Malgré ces évolutions, une question me taraude encore : à quand le déroulement des jeux paralympiques au même moment que les jeux olympiques ?

Je crois fermement en l’avenir du sport féminin, et en sa reconnaissance, car ces femmes sont de véritables héroïnes qui méritent de faire taire les plus médisants. 

Pour aller plus loin : 

Le site officiel d'Aimee Mullins :

http://www.aimeemullins.com/gallery/index.php

Une vidéo intéressante sur elle : 

http://www.ted.com/talks/aimee_mullins_prosthetic_aesthetics.html

Et le document fourni par les Nations Unies sur l’égalité des sexes dans le sport :

http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/public/Women_and_Sport_French-web.pdf

Sport : when will we see true gender equality?

So there we are ... the Olympic and Paralympic flame has well and truly gone out! Let's take a look back at this event which, since the time of its creation, has generated great enthusiasm across the world. Since the Games first appeared in Greece and until their reintroduction by Pierre de Coubertin a few centuries later, the Olympics have continually drawn more and more spectators, fascinated by this impressive yet moving event. The Olympic Games were first open to women in 1900 where just 19 women took part out of a total number of 1,225 athletes. Pierre de Coubertin was not in favour of this, and at the opening of the Stockholm games in 1912, declared "A female Olympiad would be impractical, uninteresting, unappealing and incorrect. The real Olympic hero is, in my view, an adult male. The Olympic Games must be reserved for men and the role of women will be, first and foremost, to crown the winners". Far removed from current debates and reforms concerning gender equality, this kind of speech would be highly controversial today. However, while attitudes are much more favourable to equality between men and women nowadays, the Olympic Games remain the theatre of an unfinished combat for the recognition of female sporting achievement. 

Why does women's high-level sport hold less fascination then men's sport?

1 – Let's first look at the reasons for this phenomenon

It is a damning fact, perfectly illustrated by sports such as football or basketball. In Europe, football is the subject of massive media attention, with teams from the major European cities dazzling millions of supporters each year. The amount of money invested by these clubs is huge: Paris-Saint-Germain's latest purchase was Zlatan Irbahimovic, who cost them a mere €13 million. Needless to say - with such high financial stakes, a career as a footballer remains a dream and the chance to see these players perform across the world is what fills stadiums, generates TV audiences and provides plenty of material for newspapers, magazines and sports programmes on TV. In contrast, the highest salary for a player on the PSG women's team comes to €8,000 on average, in other words 145 times less than Zlatan Ibrahimovic's salary. The same is true in the United Sates with the great NBA clubs, who buy players for astronomical amounts of money, while there is no real NBA equivalent for women.

However, other than the financial disadvantage, which prevents women's sport from making itself known and being appreciated for its true worth, there are a number of other factors involved. There is still a fair amount of male chauvinism in sporting mentalities today.

This incurable, deeply-rooted chauvinism can be justified in several ways:

-       Men will always be physically stronger than women, men's records will always outdo women's and therefore be more enjoyed by the public.

-       Some sports suggest a kind of masculinisation of women, such as judo, shot putting, etc. These sports may be seen as masculine in nature and the transformation of the virtuous, feminine forms into a muscular body is not always seen as very appealing.

-       Finally, women are apparently less interested in sport than men, and are not therefore potential spectators or supporters of women's sporting achievements. 

2 – What will be the future of women's sport?

Fortunately, certain temperaments are bucking this trend!  For example, tennis is a sport where women are almost as admired as men.

At the same time, some leading sportswomen have helped to develop an image of a female athlete who is strong, powerful, persevering and ... beautiful! For example, Ellen McArthur, one of the first women to cross the Atlantic at a young age, has inspired more than one budding sportswoman. This British yachtswoman carefully saved the money she was given for her school lunch in order to buy her first dinghy! While Laure Manaudou may no longer excel in the swimming pool, she now radiates from billboards and TV commercials. She is still one of the finest swimming champions we have ever seen in France, yet remains very feminine. She might be muscular and have the back of a real swimmer, when she dives into a swimming pool, wherever she is in the world, she is always impeccably manicured with perfectly sun-kissed skin. It is a sure sign that you can be feminine and sporty at the same time!

I would like to finish with an example that has particularly drawn my attention - the Paralympic athlete and L'Oréal muse, Aimée Mullins. This athlete has brilliantly overcome her disability and uses her beauty and femininity as a real asset. Aimee Mullins is a Paralympic athlete who was born without her lower legs but who has managed to turn this disability into ... an advantage! Far removed from hospitals and wheelchairs, she struts around stadiums and along catwalks with special sports prosthetic legs or more attractively carved limbs, helping her to get around normally and letting her chose how tall she wants to be! Much progress has been made in the recognition and awareness of the Paralympic Games since London 2012. Despite this progress, I still have one question - when will the Paralympic games take place at the same time as the Olympic Games?

I truly believe in the future of women's sport and in its recognition, as women have become real heroines, who should now be able to silence the harshest critics. 

To find out more: 

The officialAimee Mullins website:

http://www.aimeemullins.com/gallery/index.php

An interesting video about her: 

http://www.ted.com/talks/aimee_mullins_prosthetic_aesthetics.html

And the document provided by the United Nations about gender equality in sport:

http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/public/Women_and_Sport_French-web.pdf

C'est en sillonant les rues de la ville européenne la plus symbolique de la seconde guerre mondiale et de la guerre froide, que je me suis rendue compte que la politique écologique allemande avait du bon.

En sortant du métro berlinois, j'aperçois quelques SDFs accroupis par terre, ne demandant pas de monnaie... mais réclamant nos bouteilles d'eau (presque vides) en plastique... Etonnée, je m'arrête quelques instants, pensant ne pas avoir compris ce qu'ils me demandaient, puis passe mon chemin.
Un peu plus tard dans la soirée, en longeant la très longue queue pour l'entrée de l'une des discothèques les plus sélect' de Berlin donnant sur la Spree, connue pour son ambiance électro et sa déco épurée (le "Watergate"), un SDF trimbalait un chariot rempli de bouteilles de bières vides, ajoutant un petit bruit de clochettes à la sonnorité déjà bruyante même à l'extérieur du club. Le SDF demande à chaque personne attendant patiemment dans la file, de bien vouloir lui donner leurs bouteilles. Je finis par céder et au lieu de dégotter une pièce jaune ou cuivrée de mon porte monnaie, je lui tends ma "Becks" qu'il saisit vivement en souriant. 

J'interroge alors un Berlinois qui marchait devant moi : " C'est la politique ici en Allemagne. Les SDFs se font de l'argent en récupérant nos bouteilles en verre et plastique, car ils gagnent de l'argent en les rapportant " me répond-il.

En Allemagne, depuis 2003, la politique écologique a posé une consigne sur les bouteilles en verre et en plastique à usage unique. Ainsi, en rapportant ces bouteilles à une consigne, l'on nous remet l'équivalent de 25 centimes d'euro. Ce système connu en Allemagne sous le nom de "das Pfand" (la consigne) permet de recycler jusqu'à 98% des bouteilles en verre ou en plastique à usage unique.

Lorsque les récolteurs ne trouvent pas de bouteilles vides posées au coin de la rue, sur le rebord d'une fenêtre ou au pied d'un poteau, les SDFs à Berlin tardent le soir devant les boites de nuit, les bars bondés, et autres endroits touristiques afin de récolter leur butin. Mais ce qui est le plus frappant c'est qu'il n'y a pas que les SDFs qui s'y mettent : certains étudiants et personnes agées, qui ne peuvent pas vivre avec leur retraite ou qui veulent arrondir leurs fins de mois. De fait, certains sites se sont développés autour de ce phénomène afin d'aller recueillir directement chez les bonnes âmes les bouteilles vides, comme en témoigne le site http://www.pfandgeben.de/ !

Les plus réticents diront que cette politique incite à la consommation d'alcool (plus qu'affolante en Allemagne), dont les boissons sont conservées dans ce type d'emballage à usage unique.
Cependant, il semblerait que lorsque l'on dresse les pros Vs. cons de cette politique, les pros l'emportent largement. En plus d'être écologique, cette politique permet aux plus défavorisés de se faire un peu d'argent, ou de vivre correctement ! 

Même si la cutlure de la bière n'est pas celle qui règne en France, il semblerait que nous ayons quelques bouteilles de vin ou de rosé (pour la saison) à recycler !

Alors pourquoi ne pas les consigner ?

Berlin and smart recycling 

It was when wandering around the most symbolic European city of the Second World War and the Cold War that I realised that the German ecology policy really made sense.

As I emerged from a Berlin underground station, I saw a few homeless people crouched on the floor, but they weren't asking for money ... instead they wanted our (almost empty) plastic water bottles. I was surprised and stopped for a minute, thinking I had misunderstood what they were asking for and then carried on my way. A little later in the evening, as I was going past the very long queue outside one the most select nightclubs in Berlin, on the banks of the Spree, a place well-known for its electro music and its minimalist decor (the Watergate), I spotted a homeless person pulling along a trolley full of empty beer bottles, adding an extra tinkling sound to the already noisy atmosphere outside the club. The man asked each person standing patiently in the queue to give him their bottles. I finally gave in, and instead of taking a coin out of my purse, I handed him bottle of Becks, which he took swiftly, with a smile. 

I suddenly asked a local who was walking in front of me. "It's the policy here in Germany. Homeless people can make money by recovering our glass and plastic bottles. They earn money by taking them in for recycling," he answered.

Since 2003 in Germany, the ecology policy has included a deposit on single-use glass and plastic bottles. Thus, if you take the bottles to a collection point, you will be given the equivalent of 25 Euro cents. This system is known as "das Pfand" (the deposit) in Germany and sees up to 98% of single-use glass and plastic bottles recycled.

When they can't find empty bottles left in the street, on a window ledge or by a lamp-post, these homeless people gather outside Berlin's nightclubs, busy bars and other tourist spots to collect their treasure. What is most remarkable is that it is not only the homeless who are doing this. There are also certain students and old people who can't live on their pension or who are having trouble making ends meet. In fact, a number of websites have been developed around this phenomenon, helping people collect empty bottles from the homes of charitable souls, such as the website http://www.pfandgeben.de/.

The most sceptical will say that this policy encourages people to drink alcohol (already at staggering levels in Germany), which is packaged in this kind of single-use bottle. However, it would seem that the pros clearly outweigh the cons. This policy is not only ecological but it also helps the underprivileged make a bit of money or live a bit more decently! 

Although there is not the same beer culture in France, I think we might have a few bottles of wine or rosé we could recycle!

So, why not introduce a bottle deposit?

Voilà.

C'est mon premier message sur mon premier blog (je ne compte évidemment pas le skyblog de troisième) ! J'étudie le droit, et cette année je change d'orientation. Je vais enfin pouvoir me consacrer à ce que j'ai toujours rêvé de faire : étudier le journalisme, décortiquer l'actualité, disséquer les phénomènes de société, et diffuser ma pensée!
L'une des choses que je tenais tant à faire prend enfin tout son sens : pouvoir observer, critiquer, émettre, bref donner tous les outils aux destinataires des informations propagées.

Oyez Oyez, simple passants ou gentils abonnés, j'espère que ce blog vous nourrira autrement que ce vous pouvez ingurgiter tous les jours : qu'il vous divertisse, qu'il vous informe, qu'il vous donne des idées (ou pas) et j'en passe !

Je n'ai aucunement l'intention de faire une autobiographie ou d'en profiter pour raconter ma vie, qui n'a pas plus d'intérêt qu'une autre, mais simplement d'observer et de partager. Je n'ai pas non plus en tête de me cantonner à une seule catégorie de sujet. Actualité politique, sociale, économique, environnementale, reportages de quartier, petits et grands sondages... et des photos et des vidéos, sans oublier l'art, la mode, les voyages, la musique, et la cuisine !

Je vous invite dans mon monde, vous observerez tout comme moi, ce que je fais, ce que je vois, ce que j'entends, ce que je dis, ce que je pense, ce que je touche, ce que j'aime, ce que je déteste, ce que j'admire, ce que je respire, ce que je mange, ce que je bois, ce que je porte, ce que j'addict, ce qui m'irrite, ce qui m'émoustille, ce qui me rend plus belle (ou plus moche), ce qui me rend plus intelligente (ou bête), Bref ce que je vis tous les jours.

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