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Day: June 24, 2015

Afternoon Pick-Me-Up

June 24, 2015

Yesterday I had lunch with a friend who I really care about. The weather was perfect for eating outside at one of those chess tables in Washington Square Park, so we picked a seat and had a chat that has left me in a contemplative state. Knowing my twenty-fifth birthday is coming up, she asked … More Afternoon Pick-Me-Up

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“What sort of diary should I like mine to be? Something loose-knit and yet not slovenly, so elastic that it will embrace anything, solemn, slight or beautiful, that comes into my mind. I should like it to resemble some deep old desk or capacious hold-all, in which one flings a mass of odds and ends without looking them through. I should like to come back, after a year or two, and find that the collection had sorted itself and refined itself and coalesced, as such deposits so mysteriously do, into a mould, transparent enough to reflect the light of our life, and yet steady, tranquil compounds with the aloofness of a work of art. The main requisite, I think, on reading my old volumes, is not to play the part of a censor, but to write as the mood comes or of anything whatever; since I was curious to find how I went for things put in haphazard, and found the significance to lie where I never saw it at the time.” -- Virginia Woolf.
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