"Wisdom and inspiration: thought provoking, humourous, delightful, guru-like, quirky, energizing, enabling, challenging, alerting, awakening….the way individuals, teams and groups start every day as a Great Day" – The Replies Book

Archives for 2021

We found the owl.

Big and quiet and sort of glaring in an unaffected oh-so-calm way.

Nearly made us feel guilty until we decided we were not going to, nor deserved to, feel that.

We left it alone and as we hoped, it had gone the next day.

Our home was not its home and fortunately the place it called home was not ours.

Permanent link to this post

Yes to rain at night.

Sunny days – what we want.

Water to drink, rain at night.

Dry roads to drive on, rain at night.

Bright sun as we sip a virgin daiquiri at the beach overlook cafe, rain at night.

Probably between 3 and 4 in the morning would be good.

Permanent link to this post

A blade of grass sealed the deal.

They wavered, so did the grass in the wind.

It was a natural decision.

So too were the harmonies of spheres undescribed.

Which blade, which sound, we will never know.

Be sure it was a song that revealed the promising horizon.

Permanent link to this post

The sweetest tone of voice, world-saving expression.

It means everything to communicate anything favorably.

Good news, mediocre mentions, bad news.

A sincerely meant tone of voice raises the bad to add a dash of hope and confirms the good as we would hope.

Any other way, don’t even mention it, get re-adjusted first.

Welcome to a new humanity.

Permanent link to this post

It was up and down. Perhaps all over the place.

The paint had splashed and the decorators had already left without a word about it.

The vermillion wall had specks of jade and violet which looked like a spilled intrusion.

Somehow it actually looked shocking, yet a moment later it looked fabulous.

Why had no-one thought of this before?

Nothing for interior designers to do now, except to learn from this aesthetically pleasing mishap.

Permanent link to this post