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

May You Live in Interesting Times

It’s better to be a dog in a peaceful time than be a man in a chaotic period. (Chinese proverb)
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Interesting Times

There's life rendered from happy days engraved in music; sustaining familiar recollections, essential as each breath taken; manifestations surface...
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Cherry

Be still my breaking heart

‘Amy…Amy…. Amy honey, they need an answer!’ Amy felt her mother’s touch bring her out of a dissociative state. ‘We were just all together…’ Amy...

Wander around the world

A young monk was supposed to wander around the world, but, he postponed the departure date again and again. The abbot waited impatiently, ‘You’d...

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