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Archives for 2017

The images were dissolving from our memories like ice thrown into a pot of boiling water.

We can’t accept the idea that they were not important, if so surely we would have remembered?

No.

We felt good, really good, so whatever it was must have been worthwhile and positive.

New pictures appeared. These seemed to come from changes in the weather that day. Mist, fog and blue lights in the sky.

Life seemed full of swirls and fanfare.

The clocks work again now, and we are serenaded with the sound of chimes, bells, and gongs.

We are a confederation of villagers and ocean-traversing sailors.

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It was hot and sticky.

That applied to us and to the treacle pie.

It was, without doubt, the best jazz solo ever played.

Of course, that was her opinion.

But this time we couldn’t find anyone who disagreed.

I always listen to her opinion when I eat treacle pie.

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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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