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Archives for 2017

Drying peaches in the sun.

Always good to have a standby – better to have spontaneous simmering and impulsive calm. 

Dreadlocks made of rice noodles ands broccoli eggs made of icing decorated the cake.

It was a three napkin affair. 

We toasted the symbiotic pressure cookers of the region.

We started a new movement, of people not related to digestive processes  in case you wondered. 

One quick tablet, one slice of vegetable parchment and we have a legacy.
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Sharing guitar phrases and slicing the dice. 

Luck is an essential part of all success stories. 

How much of that luck is “made” or created by the lucky one, that’s open to much discussion and interpretation.  We will know one day.

Any story of a venture that takes more than a month form start to full and substantial operation (that’s all of them) that does not mention those bizarre-seeming lucky breaks, encounters or events, is not complete. 

You may need research, information, data, strategy, operating principles and know-how. 

If you learn the lucky way to find luck…..hey now, you will reach a pinnacle. 

And – no. I’m not selling or offering a course on how to nurture luck or become a magnet for it. You can invent your own!

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Helping other people, great news, networks and vines.

One way or another…

Oh, let’s rephrase that…somehow, we will or can improve anything. Anything we see, use, hear of, we can see ways to improve it.

In your case, well, may I be the first to thank you for your part?

Yes?

OK.

Thank you!

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Had they signed the contract? 

We could not find the signature, nor could we find a place for the signature. 

Things were no longer agreed after they were designed, people just invented, created and formulated things everyone agreed to. 

Doesn’t seem right, does it?

But imagine how this would be if it were true.

Don’t worry it will not be the way of things from now on, so you can muse over the idea in perfect safety and the full knowledge things will go back to “normal”. 
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Let’s integrate the furniture – they told me.

I could not imagine what they meant.

Then I started to imagine, I forced possible meanings to flow like the sparkling freshness of a mountain spring.

This became a game I played for the whole day.

Then I invented the board game.

Then came championships and world cups.

It kept growing.

And some thought it so important they began a university degree course.

Buying furniture, making furniture, designing and crafting the palace of furniture.

And yet, to some, it’s still just tables and chairs!

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