C’est plus ca change, c’est plus ca meme chose
I was leafleting for some upcoming meditation classes run by the Dublin Sri Chinmoy Centre, and I went into one cafe to find the manager of the cafe having a good old yelling match in Chinese with one of her staff. It struck me how no matter where you are in the world, anger comes uniformly dressed in a raised voice. But much more importantly: a smile is still a smile.
Later on, someone came up to me from a local radio station and asked me to describe the leaders of all the political parties in only one word (it’s general election time round here). If ever there was a task specifically crafted to send my brain into absolute lockdown, this was it. I responded with the word ‘populist‘ for three politicians in a row before realising maybe thats not what the poor girl is looking for. I did, however, come up with ‘velvet-gloved‘ to describe one particular party leader - maybe you can guess which one 
