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The thing about having and showing so much promise is that at some point in time we have to front up with the goods. Is that a truism or what?
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I love watching children blow bubbles, their eyes light up as if it were singularly the most magical moment in their lives, and perhaps it is.
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My network card is giving me grief and the modem is tiffing with the laptop, streuth! Over the back fence fighting. Tsk! Tsk! Tsk! Wasn’t it Dylan Thomas that wrote, ” …breathe deep the gathering gloom.”
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I get a real kick out of finding a treasure among the oddments of a second-hand shop or an Estate sale. It’s the fact that these things have been pre-loved. I love that they have their own story to tell and hearing it can be so humbling.
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Inspiration is a funny thing. It flits in and out of our minds and lives with little or no regard for timing. Ours usually. And often it has its own time-table, it’s own sweet time for making things happen or not. Do you think sometimes that
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