I celebrate today like a new year, and this new year rolled in with a Chet Baker song and a small pour of Japanese whisky. I like them both for the same reason– their spirited fullness, their controlled depth.
I want this to be a deep year, a full year, a funny-valentine year, a small-pour-of-whisky year.
I want a curvy fullness– not something bloated with hot air– and honest depth– not a puddle pretending to be a wanting well.
I want a year I can sip wishes on,
a year I can hum warmth into.
And I want it neat.
[And with this post, the exactly-100-word posts return!)
These have been missed. Let it be known the year began on a high note.
ECHO ECHO
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😀 Yay! Thank you, Echo.
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Brilliant. You are such an amazing writer. I’m both jealous and in awe.
Alison xox
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Thank you, Alison, that means the world coming from you. ❤
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I want a 100 small pour… This is beautiful 🤭
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Anytime you’re in the neighborhood, pop by and we’ll have a drink. 😀 Thank you for reading, Thabiso.
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Oh, sure. You had to best my posts by one word 😜
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Haha! 😀
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I drank every word.
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🙂 Thank you, Jaded.
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Happy Diwali, May this new year be the one you can sip wishes on…Cheers to those words becoming your reality.
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Thank you, Anyes. Happy Diwali!!
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Sometimes I feel like that puddle pretending to be a wanting well, scratching at the ground… is there more here, I hope? I want the same things, the fullness. But how is the depth controlled? Is it skillfullness that has the capacity for the honest depth-making? I enjoy this provocative piece.
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I get that feeling. Maybe we all start as puddles and deepen ourselves to more? ❤
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100! A good number. 💜
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Thank you! It started ages ago as a way to get my normally overly-verbose way to settle down a bit, haha! 😀
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Love it! The line, “I want a year I can sip wishes on,” resonated with me.
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Thank you for reading, Erica. 😀
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Here’s to new years and wishing on sips! 🙂 ❤
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*clicks drink to screen* Happy Diwali!
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I’ll drink to that! 😀 *clicks drink back* ❤ May joy be yours from now on. 🙂
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Your writing always had a fluid and poetic originality that seems to have been designed in a wind tunnel. What a pleasure to read. 🙂
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What a beautiful description! A poem in its own right. Thank you ❤
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As with a good whiskey, you are very neat.
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