Richard Soulliere
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Bursting with ideas, honing them to peek your interest.
Enjoyes blending non-fiction into whatever I am writing.
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I See Red
There were the usual small candles at each table. The walls, with a darker hue on the bottom half, really made the calm visual ambiance and yet, Vicki knew this restaurant was different. In spite of the variety of dishes she saw on nearby tables, this classy restaurant didn’t smell like nothing nor was it inundated with flowers to overcome such a gap. This restaurant, Chez…something or other - - “Oh my,” Vicki wondered to herself. “I seem to have forgotten the name of this place!” She resolved to check out the name of the restaurant on her way out since it was too fancy to have a menu and her boss was picking up the tab on this one.
By Richard Soulliere5 years ago in Humans
Chants to Write
Think of a time when you gave someone a short piece of handwriting that really made their day. Was it a birthday card? A love letter? A short thank you note? I am sure their reaction put a smile on your face and set your heart at ease, if only for a moment. Creating such moments are what I would like to delve into with you, here.
By Richard Soulliere5 years ago in Humans
How the Number Two Did Me In Once
Picture yourself in the following scene. You’re a teen playing charades with your classmates in class as part of a learning activity. You’re up. The teacher hands you a slip of paper. You look at the phrase written on it and decide how you’re going to get your peers to say the phrase - and you are confident that you will succeed. Part way in, you want them to try to guess the second word. What do you do?
By Richard Soulliere5 years ago in Confessions
The Universal Vantage Point of Youth
When I was living in Moscow, a verbose acquaintance of mine once described the day tanks were shelling the White House (equivalent to a Senate). There was fighting and shooting around that building, but only one block away parents were simply taking their kids to the zoo!
By Richard Soulliere5 years ago in Humans
What Spies don’t Know
Bond enamoured you with his wit, confidence, and spectacular feats. Bourne thrice shocked you with revelations both big and small. While, you may have gripped your armrests for those rides, I offer a story so packed with everything espionage that I refuse to write the genre because I know I can do no better. What is the film title, you ask? “The Man Who Knew Too Little”.
By Richard Soulliere5 years ago in Serve
It was an Innocent BBQ
While a number of countries have indigenous populations that have been downtrodden, films about what reconciliation movements suffer only from the length required to impart an individual’s fullsome story. “Where the Spirit Lives” or “Rabbit Proof Fence” both have very compelling stories and take the time those stories require. But how can we gain perspective offered with by in-depth personal examples in a succinct way that gains our respect? Don Featherstone seems to have directed one such film.
By Richard Soulliere5 years ago in Humans
One Anti-Racist British Monarch
So you’ve seen “The Queen” and perhaps you even have a special tea set that makes the next gen feel oh so special when you grant them permission to try it out. Then you hear all this stuff in the news recently about the Royals being racist. How does one respond? Well, you can always offer up another real life example on the same level.
By Richard Soulliere5 years ago in Humans
Colour Un-coded
Thinking of the impossible, try teaching the meaning of a colour to someone who, physically, cannot see that colour. It isn’t about squinting or lighting or distance. How can you describe the meaning of a colour to someone who can only see green for everyone’s skin colour?
By Richard Soulliere5 years ago in Humans
A Foot in Each Camp
You will always be born on one side of the line. When you are born so close to the top of the hour on a very special day at a very particular point on the globe like I was, you are inevitably and heavily influenced by both sides. For me, that would be the dreamer (Pisces) and the thinker (Aquarius). Holy beep!Now before I get into it, I would like to say that I firmly believe that each of us is here to be here. That’s my way of saying ‘for a reason’ without the dogma that can actually limit who you are. In fact, the fun location of Mercury at the time of my birth just goes to show how my words can get muddled unless I think about them. For example:
By Richard Soulliere5 years ago in Futurism
'Skin in the Game
Addison was perched quietly in the small bedroom on the third floor of their house by a small window overlooking the side yard that was lush with trees this time of year. Everyone else was downstairs. "Look," he heard his mother say in a highly concerned tone through the otherwise silent air vent, "I don't want things. I want my dad."
By Richard Soulliere5 years ago in Families
