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Archives for 2017

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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I added features.

The key was the basis upon which everything, with the foundation so good, was built.

So good, the empire lasted for centuries.

We still base our strategies upon my invention.

But I am not concerned with that.

Only, checking and testing every day as to what could be better.

Best does not exist for long.

Better is always available.

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The by-product of conversation was thought followed by progress.

When the ears heard sounds the eyes saw pictures – so they told us.

Two miles and one day from the vortex a birthday cake was offered as a sign of friendship.

The day before things had seemed normal, regular, just like every day before that.

Dancing over fences on a floating cloud of warm air, boundaries evaporated like a kettle blowing steam at visitors.

Attention is advised.

Calm before the fence post.

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Let us raise a flag with little to say and no, or perhaps every, country to promote.

A grand piano was being played in the street, dogs gathered to listen.

The uniformed children were playing officially sanctioned games, with rules and restrictions.

Elderly, well-known local residents were robbing the fountains, taking little cans full of water as gifts for old friends.

We wonder what else was there. What were people thinking. Where were people going. And why. We wondered.

They all knew.

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