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Archives for 2015

If your map is one which shows an area 30 miles or kilometres around your home town, then you may benefit by looking at one which covers the area further afield!

Or of course, you can just keep going beyond the map’s range.

Now repeat this thinking with everything, with some humanity, and you may find many paradises sooner than you’d expect.

Now that’s a good reason to read this today.

But don’t just read it!

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That warm summer day, I was sitting on the harbour wall, reading a book, toes touching the water, when the octopus tickled my big toe.

Did it happen? Yes, it really did.

Was it a good book? Yes. And I remember it better than any other.

Today there may be a moment like that, wherever you are. It can happen in the city, the mountains, the desert or at the cafeteria in an industrial park.

Of course, it doesn’t have to be an octopus.

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From the dairy to your table.

The idea of freshness and immediate connection.

We want things to be real, sometimes.

We really want the real you.

It’s truly a pleasure… a privilege.

Don’t change a thing.

Better to change the ring size than the finger.

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Do you like what you see?

How’s the music?

A little warmer? Cooler?

Shall we change the cushions?

Breakfast is served between seven and eleven. Lunch between twelve and two.

And if you are very good, you can invite someone to dine with you.

Press 5 on the phone for happiness.

Checkout whenever you like.

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Ripe cherries and blueberries.

Hot bananas and chocolate chairs.

Beware of the bears.

Run with the bulls.

Do not say too much with your mouth full!

It’ll be just right on the night.

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