Archives for 2018

Did you say “Magic Feifdom young laird!”?

Always, after a slow pause, I found a way, a valuable nugget, a salty engaging story, from any given stranger.

Takes time, the right setting and that ideal moment, but it always comes…if you let time unwind like a carbon-dating spiral.

Sometimes it seemed like a new universe had been added like salt out of a shaker.

Other times it seemed, well, like sheer unadulterated, dripping silence.

Every century…. a dance.

There is always a way to elevate the air we breathe to greater things.

Of course, we are not talking of respiration but of ideas.

A repeated application of sponge cakes, sweet cookies, doughnuts and other detritus will harm the mind.

So it is our turn to do some research out there in the atmopshere of concepts.

Certainty has enormous power to good and bad….it is impartial

Simply put strategy for making cognac out of rainwater and rose petals.

Nothing surprises like the invention of a new brand of water.

Water is a good thing, then there is food.

Good water, good food.

The rest is a magic blend of empathetic splicing, slicing and dicing.

Flying far with friendship.

Sailing in a jar of strawberry conserve from the coast of Senegal to the Azores was ambitious.

Cycling up the side of the Grand Canyon in winter was a challenge.

Steering a golf ball around the hairpin bends of the Moyenne Corniche was energizing.

Changing the style, aim and quality of education for 7-18 year-olds worldwide should be easy!

There are three ways the department can treat urgent situations.

Offer an English cup of tea.

Serve an Italian espresso.

Do something new, different, unexpected.

There is nothing else.

That’s it.

And now…the ideas are rushing in, because you are dying to put forward all manner of alternatives.