first post

I have a practice where I get up each morning, and, before doing anything else, sit down with a cup of coffee and write three sides of prose in long-hand. (Three sides of A4, that is.) Kate has convinced me that it would be a good idea if - for a while - I devoted one of those three pages to the fishing project. Today is the first day of that commitment.

The idea of the pages is that I simply write. The material is not carefully thought out or prepared in meticulous detail. In fact, the point is not to linger over it, not to re-read it, not to keep rewriting, but simply to put down something that is on my mind at the time. That being so, please accept my apologies if these paragraphs seem foolish or ill-formed. To me it is enough that they are here - something to read, to show you, to think about. Kate, in the meantime, is developing a complementary practice - that of reading whatever we advise her to read. My own suggestion is John Cage's collection of short texts: Indeterminacy. I'm not sure exactly how this is related to wisdom. Well, I have an inkling, but that is something for later, perhaps:

http://www.lcdf.org/indeterminacy/