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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

I’m in Oldenburg’s ‘third place’ A space for creativity, and alternative belonging A slower pace My coffee is hot, long and black I connect with my thoughts and converse with my soul I read I listen Words lift and levitate, then land I scratch and scribble Sentences take

And now your brain is making choices on the basis of preferences and beliefs that have been hammered into it over a lifetime - by your genes, your development, your interactions. The moment we pay attention it is possible to see that free will - is - nowhere to be