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I'm really gonna miss it, all the treasure and the trash The days around Christmas can feel like a fever dream. The bells are ringing out for Christmas day. It isn’t a song about sleigh bells or snowmen. I have all of the usual objections to consumerism.

I only wanted to tell of one moment and its long aftermath. With a gesture - he left the room. No one has ever left a room the way he did. He left it altered forever. He left the room but the room retained the stamp and magic and chaos

Life gets easier and easier as the time goes by - there is so much less of it. As long as you are able to cross an empty street against the lights - there is still hope. Two aphorisms this week from Finnish literary critic, author and historian Markku Envall

We should try to be the parents of our future. Rather than the offspring of our past. Another aphorism this week. This one is from ‘one of Spain’s greatest lyric poets’ - Miguel De Unamuno (1864 - 1936). Dream intentionally - while you’re awake.

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy. A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult. Two aphorisms this week courtesy of English essayist and critic John Collins (1848 - 1908). Dream intentionally - while you’re awake.

Reading is like the mind of the gods, seeing beyond the page. Reading is about understanding that which cannot be understood - which the words merely hint at. I don’t read slowly and I have long ago left reading fast - to those who will continuously misunderstand everything around

I have read speedily like a bright young fool, crabbily like a teacher, querulously like a scholar, wistfully like a traveller, and punctiliously like a lawyer. I have read selectively like a politician, comparatively like a critic, contemptuously like a tyrant, glancingly like a journalist, competitively like an author, laboriously