To lose oneself is a joy but to lose yourself on a journey without a satnav is a calamity.
She wondered how people managed without technology and remembered her grandmother’s love of ordinance survey maps.
#LossLit
Reading is important at all times & in a moment of respectful reflection on a great national and international loss then context is key. Going to my personal library this morning I’ve listed a few novelists who’ve been key to my early understanding of colonialism and empire.
The all-around wonderful @KitdeWaal dropped by to sign @TinderPress Without Warning and Only Sometimes, her heartfelt memoir of an extraordinary childhood—grab your signed edition from our Charing Cross Road shop!
There are days, like today, when I surrender to a dreamy
free-floating sadness.
Origins uncertain.
Joy in not fighting this unbidden feeling.
#LossLit#JoyLit
What have we lost
In the last two years?
Normality?
What have we gained
In the last six months?
The novelty of
Normality
#LossLit#vsspoem#PoemADay#haiku#senryu
Just back from a live poetry reading. The first for two years. Good, but strange.