I have been spending some time pondering the word "resentment" insofar as it applies to one's own life, and it seems to me that the way for me to desribe the special significance of the word resentment is as it spreads itself like a toxic greenhouse atmosphere arising damply from the imposition of a... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, September 21, 2007
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
I feel I know how to write this but not what to write; I seem to know the syntax without knowing the words to use; words that I would then have to write down. What to write would boil down to describing something that would be the thing I want to express; but do I want to express a feeling about... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, August 20, 2007
Serial journal (cont.)
Now if I find it prudent to record that by a curious stroke of fate my life here at this end of the world has coincided with the fall of the Berlin Wall and concomitant collapse of the Soviet Union, and accelerating mass technological use via the internet and electronic correspondence that is... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, July 13, 2007
Serial journal (Cont.)
It's nice, isn't it, to read quotations from famous people; they can be a remarkably soothing antidote to the kind of aggressive remarks one often has to put up with from acquaintances who tend to justify their assertations by running off a cliche or saying just to confound one; however what I am... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Serial journal (Cont.)
Since I last wrote here I have through my own clumsiness managed to erase two entries which I admit to finding irritating, but now that I have started again I find that my annoyance was short-lived and am now pondering once more the interesting sensation of writing this as if to myself, at the same... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Serial journal (Cont.)
I am constrained to continue with this curious account of the landscape and my excuses for not painting its magnificence because the really worthwhile thing I learned at the age of 11 from my art teacher was to understand that (technical) progress in painting, and by extension wisdom, was served by... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, July 6, 2007
Serial journal (Cont.)
Thus I say there is a sort of dialectic here between changeable weather in a small intimate domesticated landscape which affords to the onlooker (myself) all manner of variations of light, leading to excitement as well as tranquility of spirit; and unchanging weather i.e. continuous rain which is a... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, July 5, 2007
Serial journal (Cont.)
In order to introduce the subject of changes that one may have undergone as the result of living in a foreign country I find I have to bring together in my own mind the apparently contradictory themes already touched upon above viz., the problem with the (American) landscape together with that of... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Serial journal (Cont.)
When I was 11 years' old my form's art-class was taken in what was called in those days a "transit van" on a painting expedition to the banks of a very pretty burn in the north-east of Scotland where I was at school. It was there on a beautiful June day in 1962 that I learned to love painting; on... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, June 22, 2007
Serial journal (Cont.)
I am now not sure that "Journal" is quite the right word for this blog; perhaps "Memoir " would be more precise since part of my condition (La condition humaine: we all share that) is never to seem to be able to write about myself within a day-to-day scenario, so to speak. When I mentioned on the... Sign in to see full entry.