đ Donât get lucky; BE lucky!
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Pen: Leonardo Monento Zero
Ink: Diamine Majestic Blue
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My mum once told me as a kid you can make your own luck. She was right
Four types of luck exist. Only one is out of your control. The other three are deterministic; built through character, skill, and persistence
Positive EV across hundreds of iterations. The occasional loss (and they WILL happen) doesnât sink you if the long run edges your way















![Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: âA famous legend, called the mezereon legend (tibastsägen), is told in various versions in all parts of Sweden. There was a farmer who the SkogsrĂĽ would not leave alone. As soon as the evening came he was unable to stay at home, but run outside into the forest, where he stayed all night. Once his wife happened upon the SkogsrĂĽ and the wife asked, what should I do about the big bull that will not come home at night? Well, the SkogsrĂĽ said, you take mezereon and valeriana and moss from the roof on the north side of the chimney, and boil it and give to him.* The wife did this and gave it to her husband and he never went to the forest at night again. The SkogsrĂĽâs cry could be heard all over the land: Mezeron and valeriana, damned shall I be for teaching you healing!â â Sorita d'Este & David Rankine, The Faerie Queens, 2012. [* Daphne mezereum is very toxic because of the compounds mezerein and daphnin, present especially in the berries and twigs.] Below the text is a card with an ecoprint of hazel leaves in golds and browns; a brown fountain pen with silver trim; a swatch of pinky brown ink; and a small square bottle of same.](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/047/479/349/896/080/small/eb006148f821942f.png)


![Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: âS. Borovnik states that the authors who wrote from the late 1970s onwards âdepict various forms of modern female dependence in relation to the family, social status and biological nature. Some write about the limitation of womenâs freedom, both personal as well as political, even though on the declarative level, the state wants to convey to them that they are free and equalâ. The novels Filio ni doma [Filio Isnât Home, 1990] and PtiÄja hiĹĄa [The Birdhouse, 1995] by Berta Bojetu (1946â1997) present a special and artistically perfected response to the limitation of female freedom in which âthe human obsession with creating differences according to gender and social position has become intense to the extremeâ. Bojetu also allows a woman âto tell a remarkably sincere tale even about the most taboo topics, and especially about her own female experiencing of relationships (affair or affairs, contacts or meetings) with a man (or men)â. Gender identity in both novels can also be understood as fluid.â â Katja Mihurko PoniĹž, âThe Reflections of Feminist Ideas in Novels and Short Stories by Slovenian Women Writersâ, 2015. Below the text is a card with a botanical illustration of a foxglove plant with a few purple flowers colored in; a chiseled, silver-tone fountain pen; a swatch pea green ink with heavy silver shimmer; and a small square bottle of same.](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/030/768/580/351/000/small/0bf05eb35bf478c2.png)


![Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: âThe box is one of the trees that are traditionally clipped into hedges and edgings. A friend of Julius Caesar is said to have been the originator of the clipped, ornamental box hedge, and Martial speaks of the clipped box trees in the garden of Bassus. The Greeks dedicated the tree to Pluto and firmly believed, Francis Bacon says, that it produced honey and of such a poisonous kind that men were driven mad by it. The ancients valued box wood because it made the best musical instruments. If left to grow naturally the tree will reach a height of fifteen feet. It grows wild in most parts of Europe. Many villages in England are called after this treeâBox Hill, Boxgrove, Boxmoor and others. Medicinally the box tree [Buxus sempervirens] was at one time a celebrated cure for intermittent fevers and it has the tonic properties that are common to herbs with febrifuge properties. It has narcotic and sedative properties in full doses, and can be used as a vermifuge. To dream of box portends long life, prosperity and a happy marriage.â â Mrs CF [Hilda] Leyel, (1948) 1970. Below the text is a card with an illustration of the lovers admiring the garlands hung from four poles, a grand building in the background; a aqua blue fountain pen; a swatch of aqua blue ink with red sheen & gold shimmer; and a small square bottle of same.](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/013/597/595/795/651/small/fe92c4a26275e4de.png)






