Bon mots

Instead of as a process

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Big human mistake is to treat politics as a real profession

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Baby bird

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What are these things? Wings? But what do I do? Flap them? And then what? Oh! Wow!

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At least once

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Anxiety makes you think being anxious will be right some time

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Buzz

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When watering the garden be sure not to drown the unheeding bees

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And the tides

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My body waxes and wanes almost monthly like the phases of the Moon

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Forget-me-not

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Accumulated weight of memory in old age needs forgetting

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Special Days

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Happy Four-Days-After-Solstice Day, and Happy Nomdeplume-Anniversary-of-Founding-Day to all who have visited this blog.

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Hurricane

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Wedgetail Eagles love the howling wind – they know they are too strong for it.

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Just don’t want to, that’s all

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What do you mean I can’t write long poems? What would make you think that, eh?

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Run

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A red sky at night probably means a bushfire is very close by

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