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Archives for 2015

They never got a certificate or diploma.

And you don’t need one.

The only person you need to qualify you, is yourself.

Yes…you may have guessed it’s just like giving yourself “permission”. But better.

Academic bureaucracy is superfluous and gradually becoming conspicuously redundant.

You can appoint, anoint and announce yourself whenever you want.

You know.

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Only the longest silk threads had been used to create what was undoubtedly one of the world’s most beautiful scarves.

The softness, brightness and sure smoothness, was exceptional and luxurious.

An owner could only feel better wearing this than proceeding without it, whatever their mood to begin with.

Some things are like this.

Something you own.

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Drinking the juice and sipping the nectar.

Nectar should not always be a syrupy concoction, in fact not ever, not at all.

If you find the source of health and happiness in a beverage you will be arrested.

But once you are released for want of evidence and all charges are dropped, you will be free to do a lot of good in the world.

The pure juice is going to be welcome everywhere.

Then, when asked did you create that? You can say yes, with great satisfaction.

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Is it inviting to offer someone a seat and then stand immediately to make it accessible and is it too much too soon if there is a language barrier and cultural chasm between you and the soon-to-be-seated?

We do not ask these questions much ( and not in such a n out of breath manner), if at all…so much the better.

But occasionally trying to fit into someone else’s clothes of sensibility and emotion, can deliver a flash-of-lightening insight into a new world next door.

Or the next door after that.

Now, let us not get too particular about it. Communication quite often works best when it is not so much thought out, as ebbed out.

The flow of happy coincidence and open hands.

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There is no need to prepare a program if you use American terminology.

There is no compulsory statement that says you must have an antipasto, you can just have the main course.

Somewhere over the rainbow there is another one.

You can paint a streak in the sky.

You determine why.

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