" There is no universal solution, but there is a universal process to find appropriate local solutions."

Carl Taylor

Sometimes novels are considered 'important' in the way medicine is - they taste terrible and are difficult to get down, but are good for you. The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre. Harper Lee's triumph is one of those.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQrBbY7hhS4


Where did you go? I don't know
Nick Hakim

Slow me down, Lord

Slow me down, Lord. 
     Ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind. 
     Steady my hurried pace. 
     Give me, amidst the day's confusion 
     the calmness of the everlasting hills. 

     Break the tension of my nerves and muscles 
     with the soothing music of singing streams 
     that live in my memory. 

     Help me to know the magical, restoring power of sleep. 
     Teach me the art of taking minute vacations.... 
     slowing down to look at a flower, 
     to chat with a friend, 
     to read a few lines from a good book. 

     Remind me 
     of the fable of the hare and the tortoise; 
     that the race is not always to the swift; 
     that there is more to life than measuring its speed. 
     Let me look up at the branches of the towering oak 
     and know that ... it grew slowly ... and well. 

     Inspire me 
     to send my own roots down deep... 
     into the soil of life's endearing values... 

     That I may grow toward the stars of my greater destiny. 

     Slow me down, Lord.

From Killnarney Catherdal, Ireland

¨Siempre es relativamente siniestro volver a lugares que han sido testigo de uninstante de perfeccion¨

Ernesto Sabato por medio de Heidi. Que palabras mas astuto para ayudarme comprender y acostumbrar que mis veintes y la epoca chapina se ha pasado.

'How do you know what to do? How do you ever know?'

'You don't. I don't, said Muiris, coming forward. 'You ask for prompts, I suppose, don't get any and then just pick one thing or the other. Anything can happen. It's all chance.'

Four letters of love.

He would be fine, she told him and opened her mouth wide in the hope of freeing the balloon of guilt caught in her midriff.

Four letters of love