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9 Jun

Cellphones

The Decoded | April 2025 | By Lisanne 11.4 Cellphones are not only addictive, they are designed to be addictive. Thanks for reading! The…

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1 May

The Writer’s Block

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10 Apr

Slightly Out Of Sync

The Decoded | April 2025 | By Lisanne 10.4 The system is often invisible to those who are woven into it. The hidden cues have been…

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9 Apr

Echoes of How You Were Loved

The Decoded | April 2025 | By Lisanne 9.4 How does someone recognise love if they’re unfamiliar to it? For those who were loved as a baby,…

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2 Apr

Love, hidden till found.

The Decoded | March 2025 | By Lisanne 28.3 In the arts we often overemphasize the idea that we can know what others will love. We think…

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1 Apr

Birds Don’t Need A ‘Flying for Dummies’ Book Either

Ever seen a bird, freshly born and out of its nest, chirping alongside its hungry siblings, fighting over a worm—while its parents hand him a copy of Flying for Dummies?No?

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27 Mar

Uncertainty

The Decoded | March 2025 | By Lisanne

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26 Mar

Breaking Free

The Decoded | March 2025 | By Lisanne 26.3 Every moment you feel bad about not tackling something is another moment you are not tackling it. …

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2 Apr

Study The Old Masters

The Decoded | No. 9

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15 May

Childhood Story

The Decoded | No. 7 | By Lisanne 15.5 It matters not how angry the man. How charged with punishments his soul. Rarely do we see what we…

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