"Risk solitude and discomfort for understanding [and improvement]."

[onefrabjousday]

Books read today:

• Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming
  
• The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett (I love the pun!)
  

Aphorism: (I wonder if anyone knows what I'm quoting) "I sought pleasure where I should have sought strength, ease where I should have sought control." I read this once and was at once animated with the thrill of

Comments

[alabastard]

I have been enduring a similar experience with my writing, nearly a total creative block. I attribute this to the fatigue of my working hours and a very busy life, but something deep inside craves a return to eloquence, and words stored in immortal prose.

[onefrabjousday]

Are all those hours by the bench killing the words in you?

[alabastard]

More like the lack of hours in the bed ;-)

[onefrabjousday]

I think it's more that we feel what we think is feeling old. We're really quite young, and this age disparity with the people around us is making us feel older than we ought, or at least that we're acting older than we ought.