"Wisdom and inspiration: thought provoking, humourous, delightful, guru-like, quirky, energizing, enabling, challenging, alerting, awakening….the way individuals, teams and groups start every day as a Great Day" – The Replies Book

Pour the tea for me.

Thank you.

It is refreshing.

I am in a tropical garden.

Join me for tea and sympathy.

You will be pleased.

Permanent link to this post

Slowly and simply immersed and delighted.

I know where I am…where are you?

There have been times when such clarity has eluded me, I confess.

The aim I think, is to feel crystal clear, situation normal, thrilled and calm all at once.

But if it takes a one-at-a-time delivery of these to experience them all, so be it!

Permanent link to this post

More to the point, we need to show you this.

It’s new, yet traditional, of epic technical and nano-specific complexity.

Yet it is simple enough for them to understand.

Who are “them”?!

We can’t guess as we might be wrong.

And who wants to be wrong?

Permanent link to this post

If you are not worth at least three million Drifwags we should talk no more.

But the young women said she would be worth five times that much but in two years and only if she married the daughter now.

It took us a day of thought and consultation with wise elders.

They advised “don’t be an ass, they are in love, the future is bright and you’ll be alright”.

We cannot disguise the balance of our bank account, we eat well every day.

We have to be absolutely sure of your intentions for our daughter.

Permanent link to this post

Playing in the outside gazebo while we made up instant poems.

Some were good and are now published in their third edition and fourth reprint.

Others rose on electronic media and then faded into a digital archive of obscurity.

Every now and then someone digs up one of those obscure concoctions and makes a hit song of it.

Millions of fans.

Permanent link to this post