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The question was answered. Providing one wore a grey coat and the other a black coat in winter, they would be happy as long as their spouses continued to offer a new car every year or two, vacations in tropical climes and smart clothes to fill all the walk-in closets.

They were friends from the first days at junior high, and that continued through adventures sane and crazy, through boy and girlfriends and all sorts of others in between.

Now they would be buying adjoining parts of an old mansion, recently restored with no expense spared.

And that was their rule and method of living life – No Expense Spared, Ever.

Soon to be known as NESE.

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Teaching and learning.

All the same loop.

A good teacher learns something every time they “teach”.

A Place of Learning is quite different to most schools, even colleges.

In such a Place, learning is like a good meal, there for the enjoyment, nourishment and enrichment of all diners….err, students.

How to create the Places, that’s for another missive. Another day!

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Tweaking dust into diamonds…almost.

Some miracles don’t seem to have the background they need to have been possible.

You see, most miracles are possible not impossible, after all they “happened”.

Don’t change the dial, don’t adjust your set.

Take a moment to reconsider.

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East, west, north or south?

None of that!

We need to go somewhere, but we must not know where we are going.

It’s like a spiritual enema.

Or an emotional eye wash.

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Little in-house intrigues.

Better to avoid them.

Forthrightness and genial discourse is best. It feels better and delivers best for everyone.

Tell a story which illustrates this and you can see how true this is!

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