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Good Luck!

January 19, 2024

Luck is the concept of an improbable event happening through random chance- the outcome is beyond the control of the person affected. If the improbable

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Philippians 3:12

January 3, 2024

One of the recent sermons featured Philippians 3:12  “but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me”. Since we

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December 2023 Reading

December 30, 2023

I’ve finished up the year having read 71 books. 10 in this month alone. Io non ho paura- Niccolò Ammaniti  (2011) One of my favorite Italian stories

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Rome 2023: Day 7

December 2, 2023

Wed Nov 29This would be our last day of sightseeing for Rome. We would leave the next morning, but we were out of the hotel

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Rome 2023: Day 6

December 2, 2023

Tue Nov 28My wife, youngest son and I went to breakfast at Giolitti, located only about 150 yards from the hotel door. Then we met

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Rome 2023: Day 5

December 1, 2023

Monday Nov 27Went to breakfast at a place called Antico Caffè Greco, which opened in 1760. A long list of famous people who have eaten

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Rome 2023: Day 4

December 1, 2023

Sunday Nov 26Went to breakfast in Anguillara around 9:30a, then Lucia dropped us off at the train station and we went back to the city

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Rome 2023: Day 3

December 1, 2023

Sat Nov 25For breakfast we walked over across the river to the Sciascia Caffe 1919. It was COLD and windy this morning. Down around 3-4°

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Rome 2023: Day 2

December 1, 2023

Friday Nov 24Went to a little coffee and pastry shop a couple of doors down from the hotel. Croissants, or some pastry, and a cappuccino

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dave

“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.“

This website was formerly “the TL;DR place” on tumblr. But I occasionally posted things that I wanted others to see, and they were unable to access the content without tumblr accounts. I called the blog the TL;DR place because the writing I do here is essentially a place for me to process through my thoughts. Most of my friend group isn’t all that interested in the same things, so I write rather than talk through it.

The domain name is a play on my name: David Laurance. David is of Hebrew origin and means something like “beloved”, and my middle name “Laurance” is derived from the name of a great aunt “Laura” back somewhere in the ancestry. The male equivalent is Lawrence, or Larry…. so… “beloved Larry” > everyone loves Larry.