It's National Hugging Day today, January 21! I wish I had known sooner, I would have made sure to distribute a bunch of them among my local compatriots...
"National Hugging Day has been held annually on Jan. 21 since 1986." Who knew? Certainly not me.
Celebrate National Hugging Day With History’s Most Enthusiastic Huggers (TIME magazine)
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“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day.”
— Antonio R. Damasio, “The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness” (p.28)
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