12 August 2008
On the benefits of failure and imagination. On failure: personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s [...]
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12 June 2008
There are days, Mama, when there is far too much to do to do anything much at all. This week has been pretty much like that. It’s a week when I wish I was like earthworms or amoeba — slice me up and let me regenerate into six or seven mes. (Biologists, don’t bother — [...]
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