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21 Aug 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The therapeutic walk, pexels.com Late into the next morning, I awoke. My sleep had been different. It had been full of pleasant, personal dreams, especially towards morning. I had no idea I’d been missing them over the last months, but now that...
21 Aug 2022 12 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Tahiti, outsidesuburbia.com By evening we were back at the hotel, the four of us, eating, socializing if you could call it that, the women in command of our thoughts and talk. We enjoyed a delicious meal of tropical fish and just as exotic drinks...
20 Aug 2022 10 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Samantha and my Cynara, pexels-rachel-claire. Over the next few weeks, I suppose some unspoken truce was in place because the sailing life went on smoothly and everyone was happy. We still sunbathed every afternoon on the front deck, holding hand...
20 Aug 2022 12 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Samantha, en.freejpg.com.arimages There are two types of comparison, positive and negative, just like in any contest there are winners and losers. Most people cast all their attention on the winners, the beauty queen standing center stage under b...
19 Aug 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Sirens call, youtube.com The rest of our trip over the next thirty days was like a perfect vacation, with only one glitch. We would do a few hours of chores each day, but the craft was so well designed that with very little work it seemed to sail...
19 Aug 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Sailing away, getmyboat.com There are revelations that can put a mind into a state of stupor, of such profound unexpectedness and surprise that the faculties of thinking freeze, so to speak, overwhelmed with an infinitude of new possibilities, as...
18 Aug 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
News in bed, mocahwallpapers.com Back on the pier in Oakland Mr. Tanaki and Higgins took their leave of us. They were headed back in the boat to San Francisco to spend the night, telling us they would arrange for an army truck to pick us up in th...
18 Aug 2022 12 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The 'Gitgo' camperandnicholsons.com When we awoke, I went once again to the library window to view the streets. On this day there were more groups of people passing by. The first group of about ten were even pushing a loaded up shopping cart, we...
17 Aug 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Scout. romper.com As they left all of us followed them upstairs. At the front door, Mr. Tanaki turned to us and said, “put your house in order and pack up your belongings, all of you. If everything goes as planned, we should be leaving in two da...
17 Aug 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The governor's limo. imcdb.org As we were finishing dinner on the Abbott’s back deck, we heard the sounds of motors, pulling up to our front gate. Four of us hurried over to see what was going on. It was Mr. Tanaki, waving to us before we even g...
