The plates are hot and the food is spicy.

We are waiting for the airplane to take off.

We do not know anyone on the flight but we imagine a friend is flying to a white-sand-beach-ringed island.

We toast to their enjoyable vacation.

We pick up the pieces of an idea and assemble it.

Travel enriches those who go and what is wonderful is that it can enrich those who stay.

Three technicians and two ballerinas joined the writer and the composer to read the latest detective novel.

The book was outrageously funny, clever and original as well as having a marvelous description of the streets of Vienna.

The film was popular in Montevideo as the Uruguayans lined up around the block at the Cine del Publicidad to get tickets.

It was the surfers who had written a review of the story, they had created excitement in Wipe-Out Weekly and the word had spread.

So next time you wish to make an announcement perhaps the most unlikely place will bring the most attention and best results.

It may.

The two rocks stood partly framing the view out to sea and reflecting the sunlight like polished mirrors.

Somehow, when the light was low, the rocks were still illuminated and radiant like a young apprentice on graduation day.

When people swam between the rocks they noticed that the water always seemed warmer, smoother and quieter than the rest of the sea.

The days were long and the nights warm.

The drinks were cool and the plates full of tasty and nourishing food, some of it was from the sea.

Fresh fish, cool cucumbers and ripe papayas.

Just a drop of lime juice.

That’s where they met.

The view was sideways.

The fountain sprayed light into dark rooms.

The keyboard produced snacks of various flavors.

The people were shaped according to the seats they were sitting upon.

The sounds had the scent of fresh roses.

The sky felt velvety.

The view was endless.

You know it’s working when the lights stay on.

They decide that every night is one when people may visit and if nobody does, they still want to read, or draw or make clothes.

The fashion business was built on sewing needles and scissors. Pencil and paper helped.

The next person you pass in the street may be the founder of the House of Fashion.

The next time you have a thought you may just have created the season’s lead item.

The hot color this year? Yours.