@NiallHarbison You will likely not remember me — we met at a resort in Koh Samui. I wanted to introduce myself and thank you for your work. I just came here to say: thank you for doing what you do, Niall 🖤
USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.
Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.
I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."
"They just come with the table, man."
They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.
This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.
I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.
"Did we…?"
"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."
Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.
My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."
Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.
I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.
Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.
I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.
Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
First look at David Ayer's ‘HEART OF THE BEAST’, starring Brad Pitt.
The survival thriller follows a former soldier and his retired dog who battle for survival after a plane crash in the Alaskan wilderness.
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@MrKennethPowers It is not numbered. I’m still familiarizing with the product, but I believe it’s just blue prism insert/variation. Also want to be honest with you — there’s a pretty bad smudge or imperfection on the card. Happy to send better pics
Box #2
Jung purple wave /250
Blue Crochet
Machado Rails & Sails
Handful of refractors not pictured, including the Cam Smith
The ink will have to wait for my hobby boxes..