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
Dobe Island; My Place in the Sun
I have no copies of my island so here is Gran Canaria courtesy of Wiki
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Sports Day.
I heard they have banned it now, due to the parents’ behaviour, but while my children were young, I went to all their sports day! Amongst the crowd,...
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More Than We Bargained For
Dear diary...one summer afternoon in 1963 me, also three friends set out with sandwiches, crisps, and bottles of coke a cola. We were to go further...
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Is God there?
Running, running, running away … from God? Why? … or condemn, complain about this non-existant One …
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Burma under occupation
In April 1942, my uncle Eddie was seven years old. His father, my grandfather Archibald, was the superintendent of stores with the Burma Oil Company...
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