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Archives for September 2017

There are two ways to perform an opera.

Loudly or quietly.

What nonsense!

There are other ways. Supremely well would be a candidate, so badly as to be laughable could be another.

In some cases, visiting someone saddened by events, the latter could be best.

So might we say bad can be good?

Up to me, up to you.

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Tell us how to go higher, they asked.

We did not know what they were talking about.

Was this a bid for intoxication, a new view, a distortion?

Or, were we with hikers and mountain climbers? Social climbers?

Clarity is often elusive. So are horizons.

No matter…or does it…matter?

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A walk in the park.

Sun, shade, shadows, rustling leaves and trimmed rose bushes.

Never before, but containing a long history.

Fresh as the day could bring, soon the conversation would begin.

Dairy made and hard to please….but the idea is not to try.

Smiles made from green leaves, brown leaves and small twigs.

Driving a footpath through the origins.

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They offered such delicious and healthy food.

At last a leader in food choices, the “Apple” of restaurant concepts, leading, by offering a completely new idea of a meal instead of the same insanely minor variations that leave all restaurants so alike.

There truly is always room for innovation, for novelty on the highway, the high street, my street.

Time to get down to planning and stepping outside the menu.

Worthwhile because people always want to eat and it’s lots of fun to feed that need!

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The documents lay strewn across the desk like a swiftly discarded robe.

It was passion, full excitement, and a sinking into the abyss of whirling syrup.

No other shop offered such greetings and whispering wonders of welcome and belonging.

The structure of projects shifted step by step, spoonful by spoonful.

A light had crept over the horizon of fiction and into reality.

Well done. Nobody else but you. We do mean you!

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