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Archives for September 2019

Surely, yes, bien sur, sigura, opos dipote…..all meaning something very similar in languages we know or do not.

The vegetables at the greengrocer (an ancient concept where one shop sold only fruit and vegetables) were beautifully displayed.

In fact it seemed a shame to take a pound or half a kilo of anything lest we disturb the colorful garden theme.

As you look up from your “keyfonfablet” and see human behavior happening in front of you enjoy the surprise.

What’s coming next is so much better.

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Said so many ways, and confirmed by whispers and gestures, they appreciated our work.

We do it anyway.

Not that the sighs of delight are not a pleasant form of admiration, but one must do the good thing with or without an audience.

We met someone in the corridor and they, a person we’d surely not met, greeted us by name.

Let’s stay calm and accept a pacific calm into the future.

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Describing round angles and sweet tartness.

In between the usual parameters – of course – are some shaded (not shady!) events.

This is a new branch of physics which throws in a bit of chemistry to boot.

And it is Human Chemistry, not the exploding test tubes type found in a school lab.

Soon to be available at every dealership.

The puzzle is to discover what sort of dealer deals these deals!

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And driven in gargantuan grimaces derived from annually flowering trees.

Selling a book which you don’t need to buy. Seemingly fresh but absolutely surprising because it contains old well-preserved relics.

Beauty emitted beyond all songbirds, love birds and giggling gangsters.

We home in on homeliness and the wild open, unexplored spaces between small corners.

Leave the gargling to the bubbling brooks.

A stream aiming to become a river soon.

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Surely they’ll give us the best room in the house, even if they have to sleep in the woodshed?

Of course.

Because it’s You.

How wonderful to be treated thus.

And how spectacular to treat guests that way.

We’ll send out the invitations forthwith.

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