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Welcome to Newsletter #254

A bunch of tales I wanted to share with you

A tale I read

Anxiety sneaks in through the window one October by Maria Ferguson

A tale I heard

Former WWE wrestler William Regal on standing out without an extraordinary look:

"I always worked on a 1% idea. If 1% of the audience picked up on the detail and I did enough little things I thought it would affect a lot of people in different ways. Some people don't have to think like that and will make a connection with the crowd anyway. I didn't. I'm just normal and so I thought I had to make myself as extraordinary as possible. I think it's important for everyone to think like that and not just take their current skill level, even if high, for granted. They may get to a point where they can't fly or be as dynamic as they once could and then that's when your detail will carry you. If you have a special look or skill set then the in-between stuff doesn't matter as much."

A tale I saw

Poem 226 by Tim Key

A tale I wrote

Where do we go from here? I could climb inside your eye and look at the sun for the first time. We could jump in that puddle and learn the word “wet”. Maybe I could sit inside your ear and laugh at a Labrador’s bark, a door hinge’s squeak, a recycling truck’s reverse beeps. Where do we go from here? We could catch a train to a time you don’t want to pull faces with me, ride the bus to a flat you won’t invite me to, fly on a plane to a world where my hugs do not exist. Where do we go from here? Costa? Maybe we could get those crisps you like.

A tail I like

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