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Communication Success Ten (10) Signs You're in a Relationship With a Passive-Aggressive Narcissist ...Yes, you know what the words "Passive-Aggressive," "Narcissist" means. Thing is, if you're thinking it just means a guy who exclusively brags about his trust fund and never asks you any questions on a date, you might miss the  "Passive-Aggressive," narcissist right in front of you. Turns out, not all "Passive-Aggressive," narcissists are insufferably entitled rich boys in sockless loafers. Plenty can seem like woke feminists who'll drink in every word you say more than any other man ever has...until they do a 180° and call you a bitch in the middle of a small fight, in public.  Be on the lookout for these, before you get blindsided. “ Whatever! ” ― Common passive-aggressive retort “ It ’ s your fault that I forgot … because you didn ’ t remind me! ” ― Anonymous “ You ’ re going out looking like, THAT? ” ― Anonymous The ...

Le ão  ( Portuguese ) In many posts from this blog, I've written about flags inspired by coats of arms. On this review, we'll look how curious can be the opposite phenomenon: a coat of arms based on a flag! The kingdom of León or Le ão' s name comes from "legion", but the pun with "lion" was quickly noticed. While many European kingdoms were fughting the Crusades, the kingdom was fighting against the Moors in its own homeland. For use on the battlefields, the legions used a flag with a purple lion passant on white or light gray cloth, something like this: As the use of the purple lion by Le ão  (first half of 12th century) predates the adoption of the fleurs-de-lis by France, lions by England and the pales by Aragon/Catalonia, it may be, possibly, the oldest royal symbol documented. With the birth of heraldry, the purple lion would, naturally, fill a coat of arms. And here comes the most interesting part of this story! According to a study by Ricardo...

..... Greeting the sun as it rises over the Paradox Valley. Biking The Open Roads of Colorado and the West. The undulating, high-desert “sagebrush sea,” the only place where sage grouse can survive, sprawls across 173 million acres of the American West. But the unbroken expanses the birds require are now fragmented by roads, fences, drill pads, transmission lines, and subdivisions. “There’s just not enough habitat anymore,” says Brian Rutledge of the Audubon Society. Biking the Open Road in Colorado, With a Few Bumps Along the Way Colorado high grinding it out on a bike trail of bike trails. The newly opened Grand Junction-Moab trail, a 155-mile route linked by a network of backcountry huts, and accessible only two months a year, offers an almost irresistible challenge for bikers. The granite cliffs of Unaweep Canyon, in the western area of Colorado, just south of Grand Junction and about 265 miles from Denver, ( 308 miles from Colorado Springs, where I was working ...