Inspiration point (IP)
This Week's Inspiration Point is to take any proverb and let it inspire a story or poem. Expecting cats killed by curiosity, chickens that have been counted prior to hatching, hands that feed you getting bitten, stitches in time and hot irons striking. I suspect it may have been an Inspiration Point in the past, but repetition is the mother of skill, as they say.
Inspiration point
Malta Part One
Malta We arrived yesterday. There was a lot of preparation involved, especially for something SO important. Every opportunity that I got I would iron...
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He Ain't Heavy
Image from Wikimedia Commons - Author Peter van der Sluijs - Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license.
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To wash or not to wash …
See that car so sparkling bright? passers-by enjoy the sight, standing there at number 10, washed and polished yet again. Here am I at number 8 in a...
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Beauty awakens the soul to act
“I will finally tell you my big secret,” her mother said. Without emotion, without any embarrassment. As if she were telling her daughter what...
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The Spice of Life
The musings of an elderly observer of what can be seen in other people’s shopping trolleys.
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