"A lot of subtle things happen to you as you grow older, you realise people's motives more, that's the interesting thing - it's not always being the most wonderful person in the world that is important, what is important is understanding other people's motives and sympathising with them - I think that is the most valuable lesson you can learn
because then you can forgive people things and you can be generous."

I want to stay where the summer goes
Change my name and change my clothes
Stand in the light of forgotten windows
Out of reach down the corridors

Just walk ahead in the winter haze
Smoke a cigarette as the light decays
The child is father to the man, he says
A silhouette glows in the sunset's blaze
© John Foxx 1983

Be sincere and believe in what you create, then it will do well.
It's a funny thing, blogging.
The more personal something is, often the more universal it is. It's strange how people have private little things that they're ashamed of and they imagine that no one else will understand, and of course they do, millions of people do. We are all more alike than we would ever dare to admit.
People are too often ashamed of their own experience and feelings.

I do love walking to work.

is it a murmuration, or a chatter of Starlings?
Half a dozen of them on the grass outside some flats, strutting about.
Iridescent in the sun.
Enter Small flying bee-type thing, stage left.
Just bumbling along, and right in front of me about three feet off the ground.
One of the Starlings flew up in pursuit. Amazing to watch - the bird stopped in mid-flight, opened its wings and just hung there for a second, turned its head in almost slow motion and picked the bee out of the air. Then flew off - didn't land with its catch.

Never under estimate the power of the ordinary.

Swifts in too now, but where have all the hirundos gone??