Sit down. Use a plate. Eat at a table. The bar for civilised eating is on the floor, and yet here we are, limboing under it.
Health
The bed is for sleep, not for staring at a luminous rectangle until midnight and wondering why you feel wretched.
The best defence is, and has always been, the capacity to recognise a situation before it becomes one.
The Edwardian gentleman walked daily, purposefully, outdoors, and in all weather, and he did not consider this remarkable because it was not.
A journal is not a literary project. It is a place to put things down so you are not carrying them.
The telephone is right there. It has been right there for months. Pick it up.
That thing you have been ignoring for three months will not resolve itself. It is waiting.
I am informed that there is now a reading community, which is a phrase so dispiriting that I required several minutes and a strong cup of tea before I could bring myself to continue.
There will come a moment, in a place not of your choosing, when the matter becomes urgent.
A man who slouches communicates defeat before he has said a word.