Archives for 2015

Lipstick and lemons – both have you licking your lips.

Smell the glove, feel the softness of a sheepskin slipper, treat yourself to the best.

There is a gentle way of breaking news. And, happy announcements can be – should be – fed gently, slowly letting a favorable wave cover the low water mark.

Celebrate all those things that seem like a turning point, a glittering marker of momentous progress.

The celebration of one thing leads to the next. Celebrations spawn celebrations!

Between the parked cars there were trees and flowerbeds.

Above the clouds there was clarity and endlessness.

Above your closet is a suitcase you should look inside.

You often find reminders of significant moments, personal epic experiences, from your life.

From these come the falling leaves of an astonishingly spring-like season, just before the winter.

The winter, you invent.

Happily.

A suitable cake for a daydream.

A cookie that heals.

Fasten the blades of grass.

There is a breeze.

Nonsense you say. Well it is. And the better for it.

Sometimes looking at disconnected ideas side by side, offers great new strategies or answers to questions that still require solutions

The music can be stopped. More importantly it can be played, started, written, performed and enjoyed in so many ways.

Difficult as it may be to change your own mood by taking exercise, listening to jokes, phoning a humorous friend. It’s easy to do this by playing the right music.

Discovering the music that tunes you up just the right way, only takes a little bit of experimentation. Unlike medicines, the side effects are minor and transient.

Time for a tune-up!?

The eagle flies where and when it wants, with attention to survival and other details, at its own discretion.

A package tour is not so forgiving of whim, calculation or intuition.

But you can still enjoy the confines of the timetabled, sights-prescribed and stops scheduled, trip.

You can “lose” the group. You can invite a few of them along to some magical terrace view that you researched in advance, and if a few of your fellow prisoners are adventurous, you can escape to the excitement of a random outing without plan.

The last idea is the one that most often delivers moments, meetings and adventures that will fill the void of lesser conversations with brightness, for decades to come!