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Archives for January 2017

Sometimes the quick, rough and ready action now, is necessary.

So there it is.

Say no more.

Act.

Examine later.

And if you have some wisdom, goodness and aim, it will be the right thing.

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The numbers they expected were higher than usual and that’s what they got.

As it happens, half the people attending the New Reality Show were actually interested in knitting and crocheting. They spent an hour or so talking about stitches and slipknots, needle thicknesses and wool versus neo-wool, then realized something was amiss.

The new reality people could not understand why so many of their fellow engineers appeared so interested in knitting, a new thing they’d not experienced before.

Everyone left feeling exhilarated.

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It’s rarely as far as you think.

The trip which you need to take usually seems like it will take longer than the trip you’d like to take.

Empirically it is most often the other way round.

If you take the cog-in-the-wheel journey as an adventure, a mock-sociological experiment, it will flow and seem quicker.

This is not self-help, but it is helping yourself.

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They were sweeping the street.

The coin shined in the moonlight.

A song was being played on an old radio, the song was old too.

A sign of the times was thought to be the cigarette advertisement that had stopped being illuminated decades ago.

Another sign was the lack of conversation about politics and the numbers learning to play guitar.

Take five.

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The nerve center of the world.

The splash of water was awakening.

The fall massive.

The time it took to fall from stream to gushing shower of the gods, endless and sufficient to remember the flight number.

Travel can still be an unknown frontier if you open it up!

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