I’m borrowing Dylan’s title, but this post has nothing to do with LSD, Vietnam or the American Civil Rights movement. I’m thinking more about selves, and the idea of finding one’s self buried under yourself, so to speak. There are two immediate problems here – the intrinsic one, which revolves around knowing which self is [...]
What do you consider to be essential character traits in a friend? If you had asked me this question last year, I would have answered it by reference to those people who had shaped many of my experiences over the past decade, and listed at least 2 attributes: honesty, and the synchronicity of interest that [...]
Because it’s more difficult to know whether the 2nd, 3rd, 4th or nth glass of wine will be the one to prevent us from finishing that item of work that’s due tomorrow, we look for what Ainslie calls “bright lines” to regulate our behaviour – we stop drinking, or we stop smoking or gambling, because [...]
From Lambchop’s “Paperback Bible” – a reminder to me, tonight, of simple folly, and of the cowardice that leads people to lose themselves, and run the risk of causing others to lose themselves along the way. Then there’s a Reba designs Size eight, prom pageant dress It’s icy blue With sequins worn just once There [...]
An email received this morning, which in tone brings to mind a recommendation to try a new shampoo or somesuch (if one ignores the patronising conclusion of the email, of course). It’s sad to imagine how this person’s life will destruct if his complacency has cause to be unsettled one day… Hope you well. This [...]