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Archives for 2021

Soon the total will be enormous.

Numbers. Games. Kind consideration.

The only conversations that get remembered are in person, one to one.

The others are like school lessons with a moderate teacher – you know what was said but rarely think of it.

Delighted to meet you and know that I will always remember the words we chose, we exchanged, we shared.

You are lucky, so am I.

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It took all day to have one coffee and a salad.

Surrounding this story is, well, the detail that makes the meaning.

Someone was so busy or so distracted that time passed without speaking or asking for pause.

No breath was taken, no thought process allowed.

So fast, so furious it could be “just another day”.

This will not happen often, preferably not again.

It’s easy when you know how.

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Double halogen with LED magnesium flare ipsidium boosters.

Just what we always wanted!

Waking up on our fourth birthday we hoped and giggled the big package wrapped in toy train candy colors would be the DH-LED-MagFlare-Ipsidiums.

Forty years later they arrived, for Christmas. A glittering prize of a gift.

The turkey was good that year as well.

And, I met my aunt from Zanzibar and my uncle from Santo Principe – they also gave me thrilling presents.

Of course there were times, more frequent as I grew older, where the people seemed so much more valuable than the latest gadget. Some of the times!

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A white car, an umbrella and a cup cake.

Vying for attention.

A matter of sincere invention.

The creative brain is hard to restrain.

But why tie it down?

Suddenly no-one would frown.

They all walked the many hundreds of steps to town.

Not so strange.

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Strangely, yes.

Does a visit to a country with a social civilization and culture that makes sense, change behaviors when we’re “back home”?

Yes.

If that’s so, it suggests a change of location is in order.

Move to the better bustle if you can.

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