may be direct and directed
in the best case offering a fresh perspective
"......Be what it is, The Action of my life is like it, which I'll keep if but for sympathy."
"...And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances..."
living in walking distance of a border myself, something I can relate to
one of my earliest memories being that of slinking past some customs officers with a group of children after a shopping tour to the Netherlands when I was three or four years - I'm pretty sure they spotted us
as things are border controls are sadly coming back