Archives for 2018

Making things anything but silkily easy for clients or customers is the result of sloppy and inept work.

Yes, a mistake can be made, but anything that takes effort to understand, operate or complete is  simply not up to the far higher standards we have today.

That’s great because it means we all have only one thing to aim for….better!

The experience – which must be a great one – of the customer is everything.

This applies to doctors, manufacturers, airlines, professors, plumbers and dentists. Add a few hundred more professions or crafts, add them all…there are no exemptions or exclusions.

It also applies to governments, administrations and their organizations.

We will have a wonderful world.

A slice of guitar is enough for today’s music program, ladled with saxophone and a sprinkling of clavichord.

The College of Peculiar Personalities rates this one of the best exercises for the knees.

The resident president is swimming, most days at most times.

Gardens are open for qualified admirers – we only allow people who receive enjoyment from flowers and shrubs like a revival meeting of vampires in a private for-profit blood bank.

There are higher notes, but it’s hard to tell whether these are from the perfume visitors are wearing, or, a slither of rhythm and melody wafting from the assembled musical instruments.

We can play in the sand, at the beach, by the sea.

It’s not an ocean. There are some, but this is its geographical junior.

Smaller but still too big to hug.

Gentler but stronger, kinder yet full with dignity and bravery.

We need no boats or rafts; we can swim and approach all shores with equanimity.

We are also a fashion statement.

A rainbow divided into a hundred times more colors than you’ve ever seen.

Flavors ranging from ultra-tart to sweeter than the honyemost honey.

Fragrance distributed from pickled enhanced peppery radish to jubilant jasmine.

Roof styles from almost vertical sheer alpine slope to a mild slant that hardly tells rain which way to run.

Mountain and ocean.

The range of varieties and the variety of explorable differences never ends.

An endless supply!

Sunny disposition and the intent of the high stage dancers.

Eyes were glued to the stage as the dancers appeared, it was difficult to see if the audience watched the costumes of gold and silver with diamond trim or the lithe contrivances of dreamy yet energetic choreography.

No music, no beat, and no retreat.

We are sure now and getting to the point of realizing, then slowly accepting, the truth and actions that need to follow.

It often seems sad to end the vacation, yet summer yields to winter and demands we move to higher ground.