Archives for 2021

I could publish and then the world would know another way to live a large life.

Or we can whisper in quiet rooms, which we already do. Though we shout in nosiy ones.

We can mix drinks, boil pasta and make the most amazing salad dressing.

So you can see, there is already enough to get excited about.

Suggestions may not be needed, but they are very welcome.

We’re doing some good, though we feel it’s never enough, and that’s true.

Yet we do good every day, or most days.

Some days more than others.

Remember, sometimes it’s only the right words at the right time, other times it’s the right idea or a coin.

Perhaps once in a while we should feel it’s enough – for us.

Oh and, satisfaction can be combined with a drive to do more!

The old suitcase looked promising.

Perhaps a key to a safe deposit box, or a photo of a long-forgotten and possibly excluded family member, or a map, or the directions to a palace we had owned a century ago were all inside?

We’ll leave it to open another day.

Time for a walk, a swim and a good stretch before the evening whisky, then sleep and tomorrow the promise of opening those fading latches.

The coast was clear.

A phrase that could be bound in maritime chatter, but in this case it meant that nobody was outside and scantily clad, they could dance under the moonlight unconcerned about onlookers.

If you like to live feeling full of freedom and possibility then the coast is usually clear.

Or the nosy passers-by are not a deterrent, after all if you provide amusement as an incidental side effect of being yourself, that tends to be a good thing.

Living on the coast or in the mountains is highly recommended.

I like the journey. Journies are full of intellectual and emotional nourishment.

Travel can be mere fun or it can also be one of the most enjoyable lessons you will ever have.

Try for the latter!

How? Sign up for the course! No, you don’t need to yet, just pay attention and ask yourself questions as the miles and kilometres pass by, as the streets change, as the hills sink into flat fields…and so on.

Then there are people. People from whence you came, people you come to.

Discovering that people do not wake up from the same dreams everywhere is one cornerstone of these lessons.