Category: Reflections
Short ruminations about personal or wider problems
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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…
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Cues
I should really be doing my homework. And I will do my homework in a minute, right now I thought it would make some sense to write one of the entries currently due. Sometimes I want to be exactly where I am, in the company I’m sharing doing the things I’m doing. Being who I…
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Farmer on the ground
One thought recently is about the size or scale at which I’m operating. I wouldn’t say it’s full blown regret it’s more of an acknowledgement this is a big project to take on. I have a four bedroom house, a double garage, a front and a back garden. The amount of time this amount of…
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Making mistakes
I think today is an ‘owning up to mistakes’ day. A moment ago I sent an e-mail to a company. They make really nice rolling garage doors out bright baked-polycarbonate rollers. They look super smart, the quality is really good, the reviews are really positive, but it’s also quite a lot of money. Money I…