The Replies Book

Menthol streams of fresh wishes with a mint twist.

An airline like this must be something completely new.

And it was. Seats that seemed comfortable, at least for the first hour or so.

Room to stand and mill, chat with fellow flyers, trade travel tales, life advice, and origin traditions.

Everything, the brochure said, is possible.

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Rounded corners.

No sharp edges. Gentle introductions and soft goodbyes.

Trading swimsuits for robes of head-to-toe silk and gold thread.

Testing the fires of ice and the sound levels of anechoic chambers.

One word changed silence into longlived prosperity and health.

Sparkling rewards like cool water on overheated skin

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Drawing cotton wool from the opposition.

There is no opposing side.

There are dissenters, other-thinkers, not-yet-convinced, and the ones who think otherwise.

So sayeth the soothsayer and optimistically inclined magician.

It won’t be long before everyone has jovial arguments and joyous disagreements.

Again.

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Strike a match, an old idea in some places, light the candles, and see the flickering illumination of smiles and shy reductions.

We will appoint everyone a founder of Friends of the First Moment We Met.

Then there is a long stretch of flat, polished land we all glide across and arrive at the foot of friendly mountains.

The mountain lion is always amused.

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Kind words and creative cool.

Pleased to hear that, I thought and conquered the halls of healing, waving fingers over an ache caused soothing relief.

Dry and high, we sauntered across the empty square.

We were the first people to find the country, its cities and parks, thousands of lakes and a pretty shoreline or two.

Worlds are created here.

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