The Replies Book

Don’t look back. Two steps at a time.

Listen to that song, it’s repeating wise advice.

Two lumps, a telephone directory and extra king-size filters – things of the past.

Identifying where these things have never been “replaced” with anything else could open up new opportunities.

If you want them.

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Are you with us?

Any mail received?

Is it art?

Funny how much difference a day makes.

A snuggle.

A time to output the concerns, ideas and remedies of the weeks and months past.

The world is just a living place.

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Carlton Winderwood and the Wonder children of ocean venturing.

We had to take a dive.

There was always a whale.

We did play cards, yes.

But in a gale force nine the seas become a preoccupation.

It’s hard to relax when the force of gravity keeps switching from the right to left shoulder as one tries to navigate a narrow corridor.

The horizon is always there and changing.

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As high as a kite.

We were higher.

The top, almost, of the mountain.

And back right at ya’, they suggest.

What is this thing called colloquial jousting?

Perhaps an Olympic sport for the intelligentsia.

Remember them…?

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We logged in, took off our shoes and took a sip of hibiscus tea.

Then a cognac with a tiny square of 90% cacao chocolate.

The crowd roared with approval.

We choose to think it was approval.

Even if they didn’t approve, we did.

The windvane span like a ferris wheel on turbo setting.

Three wise owls promised to consider everything.

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