As I was reading David Suchet’s memoirs of his awesome Poirot run, I ran across this awesome Agatha Christie quote, echoing Stephen Pressfield (or actually presaging him …) on turning pro and doing the work. That was the moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don’t want to, don’t much like what you are writing, and aren’t writing particularly well. ...
(My toast at Nuts’ communion reception on the 3rd of January, 2016 … posted for posterity) Hello! Good Evening to all you warm folks … and a Happy New Year! That gorgeous girl (sorry not this one – that one) over there is my wife of four years :) She is Natanya’s much, older cousin :) Which is how I met Natanya four years ago. I wanted her to be my flower girl, but when I saw her, it was love at first sight and I asked her to marry me instead! ...
It’s been two months since we checked you in. Four, since we figured out what was eating you alive. A year and two months, since we started battling it. You’ve been so brave, through it all! Through scans and needles and burning meds Sleepless nights, and broken muscles, and A lost voice, unable to eat, to speak And even though you’re tired, I’m so glad we made it through. Time to soldier on. Time to pick up the pieces of our life. ...
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” –Francis Bacon