1oct25

The plan was to leave the house, go to a local place, have a couple of cups of their excellent imported regional espresso and a small glass of Primitivo outside with my notebook and get some thinking done. The moment I left the house the temperature dropped and it started raining, and only then did I look at the weather radar, because I’m an idiot, and saw the country-long band of rain heading straight for us.

Spent last night in talks with an artist about design and format and lettering, so the plan for this moment was to start assembling some thoughts and approaches. Instead I’m indoors with the office heater on.

OPERATIONS: Cleaning up and filing the ten pages I did yesterday, and then straight into the next thing. I lost pretty much a week to the mancub’s issues – note also that the mancub spent yesterday in the garden laying in autumn’s last warm sunbeam then came in and decided I needed to share my dinner with him – so I’m doubling-up work days for a while.
STATUS: 8hrs 7m sleep, figs and almonds for breakfast, inbox 77. I was going to leave the house tomorrow but apparently there’s a storm coming.
READING: HERESY: JESUS CHRIST AND THE OTHER SONS OF GOD, Catherine Nixey (UK) (US+)
LISTENING: Night Tracks

THINKING ABOUT:

…the most beautiful ancient plea for toleration was the one offered by the Roman senator Symmachus. ‘We see the same stars, the sky is shared by all, the same world surrounds us.’

HERESY: JESUS CHRIST AND THE OTHER SONS OF GOD, Catherine Nixey (UK) (US+)

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