“He knew, though, that the prize of his intactness was incompleteness”

Excerpt from Tender is the Night, F. S. Fitzgerald, 1934. This edition: Penguin Classics, 2010, p. 125. Photo: J. Zarins, 2022 I don't believe that we ever become complete, or finished, or actually ever grow up. At least I believe that people who do, are unhappy, boring, and unhealthy for themselves and their surroundings. This...

Thursday purpose

Frozen February sunrise, Cambridge, 2021 photo by Jessica Zarins I'm getting seriously sick of lockdown. And I really shouldn't have espresso with post-dinner profiteroles when it's not at a restaurant that I have to leave and can walk off before I try and sleep. After a few weeks of good sleep the old ghosts reappeared...

Five things you should read/watch/listen to if you want to understand me

Pippi Longstocking (1945), Astrid Lindgren   Jane Eyre (1847), Charlotte Brontë   Star Wars (1977), LucasFilms   Peter Pan (1904), J. M. Barrie   Normal People (2018), Sally Rooney   What five things should I read/watch/listen to understand you?