18 june 2013, mind the gap

This is the longest I've gone without writing up a paragraph on these pages since I started many years ago. The basic reason is that we have been in a highly internet-challenged exile for a couple of months while we had work done on the house, and that chaos and living from suitcases added too many extra layers to a too busy life. Once in that rut though, the reflex rather dulled and the creative muscles used in these lucid windows did somewhat dry up, as the steamroller of everything else in life just squeezed them out. We have been back more than a week now, but it is still hard to carve out the moment and settle again into the space: temporal, mental and indeed physical, as I have now moved into a new study, painted by my own fair hand. Here I am then, and here it is, a rather stolid rebirth, but at least its out and now I will try and get it to quickly regrow. Yes, this is a green shoot.