The Replies Book

With maps piled up, you can plot a route or explore the world.

Travel or peruse vicariously.

Some things are best viewed based upon the reports others deliver.

Occasionally it’s worth frying the egg you are about to eat or better still, bravely preparing it for another, and welcoming comments.

Praise is for poodles. 

The microphone was on.

They could hear their thoughts faithfully reproduced.

Someone told a joke.

Someone told the truth.

Laughter lasted lifetimes.

Hot grapes and cold soup.

The tigers were resting.

The invisible sun warmed continuously.

Three swans commented on the lack of crowds.

Only the elephants seemed to be planning big things.

Politics.

Repairing a broken teaspoon.

Time and patience with magnifying glass in hand.

There can be no compromise.

But we can decide on many plans, many desired results and many ways of being happy with the result.

Precisely what is wanted.

Days of honey and raspberries laid out in front of us like interplanetary sunrises.

Dawn and dusk, meat and potatoes, beans and curd. 

Nothing here, nothing there, everything with you. 

You have power and poise.