Keeper

We must get on and live life,” he says, “not just because life is brief, but because our understanding may be briefer.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and
happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is
forever flowing through one’s head.
Mark Twain

think with
Nothing to love or link with
The anaesthetic from which none come round.

This is what we fear – no sight, no sound
No touch or taste or smell, nothing to

Like being a parent, being a carer is fraught with expectations, duties and blame

But I’ve always liked buildings with a strong sense of identity. Houses that don’t need you, their character

I go there hoping for, at the least, the experience of a kind of self-dilution, but instead the strip of sand becomes just another venue for the things that bothered me at home.

came looking for inspiration (for work, yes, but also for life) as something concrete (the quality of the view) – something engulfing and omnipresent (the quality and shape of clouds), all of which is just outside the door and there at whim. It wasn’t really about clouds, of course, or views

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness, I wouldn’t know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
Aaron Copland

We live in an age-defying, mortality-denying culture. We don’t believe in ourselves as elderly. We’re interested in cancer and the carcinogenic because those are words that might turn out to apply to the 38-year-old as much as the 78-year-old: cancer afflicts the young and rich and fit. If Alzheimer’s equals old age, then that’s something we’ll deal with later