The music can be stopped. More importantly it can be played, started, written, performed and enjoyed in so many ways.

Difficult as it may be to change your own mood by taking exercise, listening to jokes, phoning a humorous friend. It’s easy to do this by playing the right music.

Discovering the music that tunes you up just the right way, only takes a little bit of experimentation. Unlike medicines, the side effects are minor and transient.

Time for a tune-up!?

The eagle flies where and when it wants, with attention to survival and other details, at its own discretion.

A package tour is not so forgiving of whim, calculation or intuition.

But you can still enjoy the confines of the timetabled, sights-prescribed and stops scheduled, trip.

You can “lose” the group. You can invite a few of them along to some magical terrace view that you researched in advance, and if a few of your fellow prisoners are adventurous, you can escape to the excitement of a random outing without plan.

The last idea is the one that most often delivers moments, meetings and adventures that will fill the void of lesser conversations with brightness, for decades to come!

If your map is one which shows an area 30 miles or kilometres around your home town, then you may benefit by looking at one which covers the area further afield!

Or of course, you can just keep going beyond the map’s range.

Now repeat this thinking with everything, with some humanity, and you may find many paradises sooner than you’d expect.

Now that’s a good reason to read this today.

But don’t just read it!

That warm summer day, I was sitting on the harbour wall, reading a book, toes touching the water, when the octopus tickled my big toe.

Did it happen? Yes, it really did.

Was it a good book? Yes. And I remember it better than any other.

Today there may be a moment like that, wherever you are. It can happen in the city, the mountains, the desert or at the cafeteria in an industrial park.

Of course, it doesn’t have to be an octopus.

From the dairy to your table.

The idea of freshness and immediate connection.

We want things to be real, sometimes.

We really want the real you.

It’s truly a pleasure… a privilege.

Don’t change a thing.

Better to change the ring size than the finger.