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
Dame Nellie's Crackers
They’e not really crackers they’re actually toast as Nellie will tell if you believe in her ghost. Easy to make it just takes a tick. Surprise...
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Love it or hate it … ?
Thinly spread …
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Making this world a bettter place
Of course, I have to help my fellow human beings. And especially when they live in your neighbourhood. But where is the limit to getting your fellow...
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The Lighthouse Keeper of Ras Gombo
It’s a well-known fact that seafarers staring at the sea during the hours of darkness can be hypnotised by the calming waves and the bioluminescence as their ship cuts through the water. In their half-awake half-asleep state of mind, they feel an unexplainable urge to walk to the railings, climb over and jump in. I once experienced this peculiar feeling whilst on watch on a bulk carrier sailing south through the Red Sea towards the Bab al-Mandab Strait and the Indian Ocean beyond.
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Awake??
Sleepwalking through life dreaming, beaming …
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