In This Issue…

Sometimes a Pineapple arrives neatly arranged.

This is not one of those weeks.

This week begins with balance. Not the kind sold by wellness gurus and productivity experts, but the kind most of us spend our lives negotiating: work and rest, responsibility and freedom, pressure and perspective.

Along the way, we discover that a scoreboard can change the way people behave, that responsibility can travel from a small Alsatian village all the way to Kuwait, and that a holiday can be improved or ruined by ants, routers, socks, vacuum cleaners and circumstances entirely beyond our control.

We also open a new door.

For the first time, The Pineapple includes a dedicated fiction section. Janita introduces us to Lucy McKenzie and reminds us that imagination can sometimes reveal truths that reality prefers to keep hidden.

Elsewhere, our tables continue to do what Brida tables do best. People from different countries, backgrounds and experiences sit down together and discover that life is surprisingly similar wherever you happen to live.

Some articles may make you think.

Some may make you laugh.

A few may do both at the same time.

And somewhere between balance, scoreboards, holidays, responsibility, fiction and vacuum cleaners, you may find yourself reflected in the pages.

Welcome to Pineapple 13.

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