After so many steps, can there really be more? Is it worth it?

Depends whether you really want to see The View.

In fact, any energy you have left is always worth expending to be able to see that.

The View of course is many things. Sometimes its a distance run, sometimes a little more effort to take the skin off the vegetables you are cooking, it’ll just make that tiny difference.

It is perhaps, similar to experiencing the sparkle of a diamond over and above the reflection from polished glass.

Diamonds, really are…forever.

Beds.

Very important in a hotel and pretty well the same at home.

A good bed. Some memories are made of this!

Sleep and composed, compliant comfort.

Where there is a bed, well there, is a way.

Five hundred words later she had the beginning of a novel.

A start. Part of the extraordinary composition of any work.

Whether you follow the beginning, middle and end, or some other three-part concept, most work progresses in components numbered in threes.

Hammer, nail, sandpaper? Not exactly! Yet there will likely be a trio in engineering, science, art, music and all creative endeavors.

Ready! Steady! Go!

Sometimes there is that “some kind of wonderful” thing or event.

The phrase “Live long and prosper” is just such a creation.

And as a tribute to the man who often had the chance to utter these words as his own, Leonard Nimoy, here they are again, a better salute and greeting you’d hardly find:

Live Long and Prosper.

A small bar of gold lay on the wooden table.

Picking it up, it seemed too heavy for its size.

They were pleased to be paid this way. After all, kingdoms had been “built on gold”.

If for a moment, you imagine that golden thoughts are just as valuable as the metal, what would you like to think, and how would you spend those glittering prizes?