“We need to get our priorities right,” says long distance swimmer Lewis Pugh at the Morningstar Sustainable Investment Summit in Amsterdam.

He swam across the North Pole, the length of the English Channel, and across a glacier lake at Mount Everest.

I recently returned to Arkansas after thirty years. From Helena to the Ozarks, this journey was less about politics and more about memory, family, and how America looks and feels when you come back after a lifetime away.

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Zelensky’s comment on X following his early exit from the White House:

The ARD prognosis puts a Kenia-coalition (CDU-SPD-Greens) in Germany at a 2/3 majority in the Bundestag. That could unblock the ‘budget-brake’, allowing tax cuts and investments. ZDF prognosis does not. #Germany #Germanelections #Bundestagwahl2025

Jep!

Beautiful day in Luxembourg.

Why must a person on a bicycle be chased? What’s it like to use your mouth as a hand?

Very happy that I can finally read the 9 point font in this edition of #InsideofaDog, thanks to my new lenses 🤓. #BookSky

AI is set to reshape journalism, but it’s the editors who will feel the biggest shift. Reporters still rely on relationships, instincts, and the ability to tell human stories—tasks AI can’t easily replicate. Editors, on the other hand, operate in a space ripe for disruption.

“Potential market impact: Berkshire Hathaway shares rise as Buffett’s company has enough capital to weather the panic and the company gains market share.”

That is what Saxo predicted.

Berkshire ranks second among US property insurance firms.

🇳🇱 Geluk, gezondheid,
liefde in het nieuwe jaar –
licht blijft ons leiden.

🇩🇪 Glück und Gesundheit,
Liebe führt uns durchs neue Jahr –
Licht, das uns leitet.

🇺🇸 Joy and good health bloom,
love guides us through the new year –
light to lead the way.

#2025 🎆

Skye wishes all of you Merry Christmas, with many cats to chase. 🎄🐾