One at a time, the fluttering swallows had told me that the best thing about their newfound freedom in South Korea was that they weren't always looking over their shoulders, that their paranoia had transmogrified into a state of cautious well-being.
Despite drifting back to a state of cautious admiration (my MacBook Pro really better not blow up), I've decided to proceed with this piece, because the polarizing nature of Apple is an interesting topic that deserves to be examined further.
The Scotland whose independence I seek is more a state of mind: cautious, communitarian, disliking of bullying or boasting, broadly egalitarian, valuing of education, internationalist in outlook, working class in character, conservative with a small c.
Republican Senator Bob Corker, of Tennessee, who interviewed with Trump for the post of Secretary of State, offered a cautious endorsement of this idea in an interview with Politico on Monday.
The gulf between the challenges facing America and the ability of a divided government to respond was laid bare by president Barack Obama on Tuesday in a cautious State of the Union address that sought predominantly political rather than policy solutions.
Updated at 4.38am GMT 4.27am GMT The Guardian's Dan Roberts and Paul Lewis have written up a news story on tonight's speech: The gulf between the challenges facing America and the ability of a divided government to respond was laid bare by president Barack Obama on Tuesday in a cautious State of the Union address that sought predominantly political rather than policy solutions.
Davos, of course, is a western construct, the product of the pre-Reagan/Thatcher 1970s when the post-war time of cautious, collectivist state-backed security was still to be rolled back by not-very-trammelled free markets, before Ron and Maggie removed the airbags and seatbelts from the boring, post-war Volvo to make it go faster, as I never tire of explaining.
Here's a roundup of the latest developments: US Secretary of State, John Kerry, expressed cautious optimism that a deal could be reached to guarantee the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons, as he began talks on the issue in Geneva with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov.
Now there are signs that consumers are feeling cautious, a state of mind that isn't helped by the plunge in tech stocks.
Under the current state of knowledge, mankind must take cautious but unequivocal steps to reverse current patterns.
This cautious, constantly analytical state of mind makes a good policy adviser.
