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Archives for September 2018

Time to check the genuineness of the offer.

A moment’s thought…if it’s too good to be true…

Fantasy is fantastic, but the reality is more so.

The calm that comes from sensing what is real and reasoned does not interfere with the bravado-excitement of reaching for the moon.

Choose a planet if you will, aim for it, decline the free ride with strange benefits and stellar promises, insist and persist and you’ll be at the Four Seasons Lunar Base 1 quite soon.

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A walk into the future.

Only just over the hill.

A world apart.

A journey from here to there takes no time.

Any new algorithm is designed and ready in minutes.

The old ways, systems and structures looked like a sort of medieval cruelty chamber.

And fortunately, one by one, the people drifted towards a Deliriously Ecstatic Stoicism which I invented.

It’s OK; you can design “apps” for it.

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We sailed at speed into slowness.

Have a biscuit, take a ticket – we’ll be right with you.

Movement froze on the boil and sliced through vacuums and valleys.

We trod the under-leaves and looked at the light between sprouted tree branches.

We are back in town.

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There is a dishwasher.

A machine?

A person who washes china and glasses better than any other, a professional?

Or is this a story about magic, kind conspiracies to re-invent soup, to hear the clink-clank of cutlery as if it were inspiring music?

If you travel enough, the answers will be visible in the sky.

It will be explained simply and clearly.

And we will all discover why this is so very relevant to creating a better street corner on every corner.

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Included inside.

As if it would be excluded, or, outside.

As if….

Then the better thing is yet to come. And, likely as not, more likely than not, it is included.

Take the syrup and stir.

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