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Thoughtfulness Is The Key

Don’t confuse authentic care with manufactured wellbeing.

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Andrew Maness
Jul 22, 2024
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Like Colonel “Hannibal” Smith, I do love it when a plan comes together. The past couple of weeks have encompassed a lot of movement and no small amount of coordination, all to facilitate time to “take it easy”. Go figure. This culminated over this past weekend when I took a convertible Ferrari that rings up at over a half-mil on a ferry to Long Island for a day trip. I genuinely get a kick out of the sheer ridiculousness of my life sometimes and I look forward to sharing my exploits with the 812 GTS with you, but I’m getting ahead of myself.

Another edition of “ThisNiceLife: OTG” is coming up next featuring highlights from the past couple of weeks spent in New England and Upstate NY. For this dispatch I want to touch on something less definitive, some important intangibles, one of which is the simple pleasure of time spent driving for the sake of driving and another the added benefit of considering the locale when choosing your transportation.

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