Five-ish minutes of talking, fifteen minutes of quiet working time, and five-ish minutes of summing up.

I talk about my plans for this creative session, spend fifteen minutes writing something different, and then explain why I’m OK with what I wrote anyway. Including references to Elen Caldecott’s book for young people, The Short Knife, the Radiolab episode Brain Balls and the book Londinium: A Biography by Richard Hingley.

The sound for the quiet quarter-hour here is the noise of the burn (stream) behind my studio, which, after our long snows, is in spate.

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