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Archives for 2016

Verify the strengh of the pillows before putting the book to bed.

Who’s awake and who’s asleep?

We have lift-off and we have touch-down. 

Heels dug in, we ride into the sunrise completing the tasks at hand and rounding up the collectors’ albums.

There are days, weeks, months and years…but don’t forget the minutes, the moments!

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Red, magenta, orange, cue green, redemption orange and pure through blue.

We have a spectrum to explore.

Wavelengths to fill.

Vibrating to the tuning fork’s wisdom and the wise one’s advice. 

You. You. You.

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Let’s configure the marmalade today.

This time there will be chocolate fruit and vegetarian pasta.

Food. Glorious food. Necessary, but not to be worshiped, except if you are brothers with a celebrity chef. 

A chain of socks were drying in the jasmine-scented breeze.

Things were better, and so were the leaders.

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We are spellbound and we are forgetting the waste disposal systems of the past.

This was the theme of an engineering conference focusing on sanitation.

I found the coffee shop across the street much more to my liking. Even the little savoury biscuits were good. 

We need a reason to ask someone to come and talk, join in conversation, and when tea and coffee are excluded from the list of possibilities, alcohol as well, we may invite you for a sparkling water. 

It may take some getting used to this fizz.

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Don’t just sit there, they said.

But we were sitting on a wall, with a view of the ocean and had decided to tell a joke.

Play well and play fair.

Deal us out and include us in. 

Your turn to grin.

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