Archives for October 2021

The old suitcase looked promising.

Perhaps a key to a safe deposit box, or a photo of a long-forgotten and possibly excluded family member, or a map, or the directions to a palace we had owned a century ago were all inside?

We’ll leave it to open another day.

Time for a walk, a swim and a good stretch before the evening whisky, then sleep and tomorrow the promise of opening those fading latches.

The coast was clear.

A phrase that could be bound in maritime chatter, but in this case it meant that nobody was outside and scantily clad, they could dance under the moonlight unconcerned about onlookers.

If you like to live feeling full of freedom and possibility then the coast is usually clear.

Or the nosy passers-by are not a deterrent, after all if you provide amusement as an incidental side effect of being yourself, that tends to be a good thing.

Living on the coast or in the mountains is highly recommended.

I like the journey. Journies are full of intellectual and emotional nourishment.

Travel can be mere fun or it can also be one of the most enjoyable lessons you will ever have.

Try for the latter!

How? Sign up for the course! No, you don’t need to yet, just pay attention and ask yourself questions as the miles and kilometres pass by, as the streets change, as the hills sink into flat fields…and so on.

Then there are people. People from whence you came, people you come to.

Discovering that people do not wake up from the same dreams everywhere is one cornerstone of these lessons.

We found the owl.

Big and quiet and sort of glaring in an unaffected oh-so-calm way.

Nearly made us feel guilty until we decided we were not going to, nor deserved to, feel that.

We left it alone and as we hoped, it had gone the next day.

Our home was not its home and fortunately the place it called home was not ours.

Yes to rain at night.

Sunny days – what we want.

Water to drink, rain at night.

Dry roads to drive on, rain at night.

Bright sun as we sip a virgin daiquiri at the beach overlook cafe, rain at night.

Probably between 3 and 4 in the morning would be good.