November 23

Wrapping the blanket about me is a comfort but not as much as the heating, for it is November and we don't need to feel guilty about putting on the heating. Of course it doesn't change other plans, and the storytelling through picture books for adults is still what I want to do. I have a couple dozen outlines this November is when I start filling in the finer detail.

Overwhelming
Sharpen and click, but now there seems to be just too much, the list of things to do,...

Old anxieties
Tick tock tick, I let things go on not worrying too much about the stuff that I worry...

Storytime again
All the voices are played be the one actor, because the story is being told by the one...

Slipped on by
Perhaps it is better to take a decision and get it wrong than to wait for the perfect...

Restricting practise
About three quarters through the day today I was struck with the dilemma: how much do I...

Disappointments
Expectations. They lead to disappointments when I let them expectations fill up...

Valid and validity
Just how it is, just stop. Hop, drop, tip top, words are a flop, slop, crop. Cut it out...

White noise
What will it be like when no one knows what the visual equivalent of white noise...

The trick
I wonder if the trick is to simply think to yourself you are going to enjoy the journey,...

Bleakness
The Bleakness is in those moments when I am reminded that everyone thinks I did...

Reception
The moment of pleasure is listening to the quiet conversation in the hall, the advisors...

Knickers
I noted your knickers, hanging, as they do, in the bathroom. I noted your knickers...

Tattoo
Then I said, my son travelled to Edinburgh to get a tattoo, and the customer was happy...

A little change
Change, I tell you. The thing I need to do, the thing that will make it all a lot...

Data and forgetting
Let me tell you about the dream, for it is really a distopian novel in the waiting. ...

Lost thoughts
This morning as I walked to work I thought of something, an interesting idea. I can...

How much is too much
So, she comes half way round the world to visit on my side of the world and I would like...

The best effort award
You should take a moment to watch them, take some time to think about how you want to...

The message
Today I had the weight of disappointing someone I don't want to disappoint follow...

Hope
A desire for a particular thing to happen, I think hope is active, it is not a whimsical...

North Woods by Daniel Mason
A fascinating concept of tracing the stories of people through a fixed place over...

Self preservation reflex
There was that line in a story about thinking of the right thing to retort but only...

That is tired
And so, perhaps, there is no point in trying to work out how this can be fixed. It...

A bicycle
If I would like to embark on a great bicycle journey the first thing I will need is a...

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