The Replies Book

An international call, an antelope and a rabbit.

The line was good for a minute or two and then it would cut out a few vital words.

Did she say she had succeeded or everyone had accepted the opposite?

Oh well, the antelope seemed to watch us as if possessing some deep knowledge it would take us another thirty years to learn.

A rabbit was all it took to spook the larger animal which ran off with its usual elegance.

The show does not offer us control, it is or has been written and plays out in front of our eyes.

What we say, the words we use, even on a choppy phone line, are more certainly our creation.

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It should be obvious. It’s easy. Just do it.

Stupidity is free…so is aware, inquiring intelligence.

The cost of “knowing what I think” is often a self-satisfying feeling immersed in a sauce of limited knowledge.

Better to ponder than scream yonder.

And then, in the end, they will come to you.

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A knock at the door, a scrawny adult and a bag.

Someone introduces themselves as our new neighbour.

Three hours and some drinks later we seem like great long-time friends.

A surprise and a fine result.

Oh, and, welcome to the neighborhood!

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The aroma of velocity.

How many flavors in a dimension?

More in the fourth?

Variety and variability in the fifth?

We move wafting past lavender and sage.

Faster or slower, it’s like a tone control.

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Underperform or overperform.

Not always obvious.

Your 1999 Aston Martin may have overperformed that day on the Sol y Nieve road, if you could call it a road, but you had to leave it in Guadalupe for repairs.

The balloon reached a mere 200 feet height over the rolling hills of Dinsdale, yet you were able to open the champagne and see the details of ancient rooftop tiles you’d never imagined.

Some benefits.

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