For Mandolin O’Dorke it should have been an average stroll in an average wood on an average day. The sun shone in a ho-hummish medium sort of way, Goldilocksian in that it wasn’t too hot or cold. He felt okay, nicely poised between happy and miserable, in one of those fence-sitting moods that can soar with the discovery of a fiver in the inside pocket of your jacket or plummet with the squelch of something clawing on the sole of your shoe.
If he spotted the rainbow at all it was with that part of the brain that sits in reserve at the back reading the Hippocampus times and waiting to see if it’ll be needed. He had almost passed it when something caught his eye. He thanked the something, explaining that his eye had a tendency to come loose on average days and popped it back into its socket.
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Hello, Sue… I have just selected you to join in the “321 Quote Me” – A Positive Outlook
http://beckiesmentalmess.blog/2019/04/23/3-2-1-quote-me-a-positive-outlook/
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Thank you for thinking of me, Beckie.
You may have noticed that I am right on the verge of setting off to run a pretty hectic workshop, so I will not have time to take part properly. But, rather than just saying ‘no’… here’s a link to ‘one I wrote earlier’ 😉 https://thesilenteye.co.uk/2017/05/07/the-positives-in-negativity/
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Thank you, for sharing this lovely story to me. 😊
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