Archives for 2021

Start and stop, it seemed slow but the view was opening up.

Edging forward, creeping, crawling, and other descriptions of sleep-inducing progress were most appropriate.

When you travel in a 1951 Bentley there are allowances to be made. There were a few even in 1951.

A glimpse, oft repeated, of sparkling brighter-than-true blue water seen between oleander and pine trees made it all seem worthwhile.

The sea was a small one in planetary terms, but large enough to us even though an island was visible less than a mile away.

We yearn for such moments. Again please!

The day dawned with a stable coin, a stable and a saddle.

The jockey, an experienced Wall Street official Manipulator, knew the score and the whole story.

Driving faster than could ever be wise, along the winding tree-and-hedge-lined road, our jockey succeeded in winning by arriving at the stables to deliver the newly minted saddle.

As he stepped out of the gleaming over-polished Maserati he flipped a coin in the air, letting it land heads up in a pile of recently produced horse manure.

The next chapter reveals more.
And, doesn’t it always?!

Bunches of hunches.

It all started with a seed.

We had no idea it fell out of the bag.

Years later a field of flowers had become a tourist attraction.

A cafe set up across the road, filled all year long with the delighted visitors.

A richer carpet of the most brilliantly colorful flowers, had never been seen.

World report and local snack.

We look out toward the rest of the world and wonder if this, where we are, is the best place.

There is always somewhere better.

Better in some ways.

Meanwhile we are here waiting for the light to shine on the mountainside and for the day to offer an unscripted menu.

It was all new information.

Perhaps I was learning something.

But I was not so sure I wanted to learn it.

Some topics are like daggers when delivered at the moment when they clash with emotional dynamite.

We can take some comfort in realizing this may be the best available result.

Silliness, like the idea of winning a lottery seem the best blocking thoughts. Or better still, a good joke.