Category: Reflections
Short ruminations about personal or wider problems
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Unreal
Every now and then I remind myself that the structure of a week is completely artificial. Weeks have beginnings, and middles, and ends because we assign those things to them. When you wake up on a Monday morning and you’re not excited about it, the day itself is very similar to the previous day and…
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Consistency
Part of the reason I’m writing these little journal entries is because I’m curious about what other people think and how their lives go. My diligence, consistency and effort comes and goes in waves. There are days when I wake up and I clean and I organise and I cook healthy food and I work…
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Company
Much of the time I feel very comfortable in my own company. I wake up in the mornings and I make coffee, I sit by the window and I drink it thinking about the things I’m going to do during the day. I make scrambled eggs and I eat them quietly while I think about…
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Remembering 9/11
I was sailing with a predominantly American group on a three-masted barque called the Statsraad Lehmkuhl on September 11 2001. It’s a beautiful Norwegian training ship, based out of Bergen. It’s about 85m long and 12m wide at the widest point. This is long and slender for a ship, so it looks fast. It can…
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Environs
I just finished my Chinese class and one of the things I thought I would do very quickly before I start working is to write my daily entry. One of the things that’s really difficult to admit to myself is I have plenty of time to do things. It’s really about what I choose to…
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Regret
I’m going to stick to just these two entries. We are hot off the press of the entry I’ve just written for Thursday 3 September and now, given it is Sunday evening, I’ll write the entry for this one. This weekend I went to Manchester and spent Friday and Saturday night at J&J’s home and…