These are my notes from each week. I live in South London (UK) and work closer in to central London.
In 2022, I decided to write and publish weeknotes. Here’s the first one. Originally, I published them on Tumblr. When I got to the end of the year, I decided to stop writing. I thought I’d be glad to get the time back – y’know not to feel the obligation to write every week. But actually, it turns out I missed the whole process.
Usually I write these notes in my head while I walk, and when I wasn’t publishing them any more, it felt like I was walking on my own. Turns out I missed the company.
There’s also this, a poem by Maggie Smith, called ‘Poem Beginning With A Retweet‘:
If you drive past horses and don’t say horses
you’re a psychopath. If you see an airplane
but don’t point it out. A rainbow,
a cardinal, a butterfly. If you don’t
whisper-shout albino squirrel! Deer!
Red fox! If you hear a woodpecker
and don’t shush everyone around you
into silence. If you find an unbroken
sand dollar in a tide pool. If you see
a dorsal fin breaking the water.
If you see the moon and don’t say
oh my god look at the moon. If you smell
smoke and don’t search for fire.
If you feel yourself receding, receding,
and don’t tell anyone until you’re gone.
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