Archives for 2016

An ostentaceous supply of kindness.

The comedians counted the chips.

The cooks fried the tomatoes.

Means of healing increased and became part of the daily routine.

Was that a joke or a warm pizza?

The pencil had been sharpened, the pen filled with ink and the coffee pot replenished.

Twice the bell had rung out and twice the tailor spat the pin he was holding in his mouth, out onto the floor. 

Everything seemed unprofessional, as if the students had taken over the country. 

But the experts were mistaken that day, for everyone was a student. 

Learn again!

Slicing a sheet of paper on a narrow edge is harder than just cutting it in half.

Unless you have a precision laser, in which case one is just as easy as the other.

Many things have a favorable exception, and discovering that exception is often the route to discovery, invention and progress.

Final notice to enjoy champagne while you view our new designs.

I declined the champagne but enjoyed looking at the designs.

It was the middle of the day, well more accurately early afternoon, and I think champagne deserves the evening or on peculiar occasions, early morning!

Such urgency to offer champagne seems unusual, but it is not. The sipping clients often become paying customers.

In the upper room a light shone so brightly it lit half the street.

If the people living at the corner house moved a new street light would be needed to replace their light output and resulting illumination of the neighborhood .

Some things last as long as they should. 

Light is valuable whatever the source.