Tag: toastmasters
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I Don’t Write for Food
It’s only in the middle of the conversation that I realise what my dinner companions and myself have in common. The conversation has wended its way through the learning app DuoLingo, Swedish sandwich cake, a red-themed dinner, insider visits to restaurants, an extended discussion about the wine list, pop-up wine-tastings and dinners as well as…
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My Life As A Raindrop (The Friendly Snowflake)
On the coffee table in front of me is The Friendly Snowflake by M. Scott Peck (illustrated by Christopher Scott Peck). Idly I pick it up and flick it open to a random page. On that page is a passage linking the idea of reincarnation to the water cycle through a snowflake. Instantly I’m taken back in…