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Archives for November 2023

Spend a day where you say Hello to everybody.

Warmly.

Genuinely.

Keenly.

Inquisitively.

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We’re working on Artificial Sympathy.

Artificial Empathy comes next.

But, we just remembered the real, not the artificial versions.

Yet, we wish to be outside the Luddite camp and in with the new.

But, quality and real contemplation must be, must be part of the plan.

Maybe…we should learn to plan!?

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We don’t use a telephone with a rotary dial – we see them as museum pieces.

We still boil water in a kettle.

We use easy methods to make coffee, tea bags and sliced (grainy, gritty, wholesome) bread.

Evaluate the core, the essential elements in changes, see what is new.

See what could be.

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We would love to forgive your debt, small as it is.

It’s just that we’ve run out of ink.

Yes, we still have paper forms, paper and pen.

We like the beautifully time-consuming tradition.

Oh…you’ve got a pen on you?

That should do it.

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We usually say Yes.

Then the work of making the impossible possible, begins.

It’s worked eighteen times out of nineteen.

The failed one was not wanted in the end, so no major disappointment.

We don’t recommend this approach, it suits us.

A pull-you-through chorus that suits you, that’s what we suggest.

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