I sold another book today, a nice hardback copy of Specimen
Days by Walt Whitman published in 1979. I’ll
post it tomorrow when I go to Warminster to see my friend. I’m not going out
today, it is too rainy and windy. I’m quite happy indoors, alone but not
lonely. I have my books and my music to occupy me, and there are plenty of household chores to do if I feel so inclined. I had another listen to Mariee Sioux earlier
and I’m listening to What a Beautiful Place by Catherine Howe at
the moment. What a nice album it is. I am a sucker for female singers.
I just put two books in my shop. Firstly, a limited signed
edition of Sleep, Pale Sister by Joanne Harris. If you haven’t
heard of her you might have seen the film of Chocolat which is her most famous
book. The other book for my shop is The Voice Is All, The Lonely Victory Of
Jack Kerouac by Joyce Johnson. It is a memoir by Joyce of the days
when she was Jack’s girlfriend. I haven’t read it unfortunately. The number of
books I mean to read is growing by the day. I ought to set time aside every day
for reading.
Last year I read a page of Krishnamurti every day. I
have finished that book now and have ordered another one. I’ll tell you about
that when it arrives. Last night on youtube I watched a speech he made to the
United Nations in 1985. You can find it if you have a spare hour on your hands. It made a lot of sense to
me. Afterwards, there was a question and answer session and he was asked by a
man in the audience, “How can one person changing their life change the whole
world?” and K replied, “Try it and you will find out”, which I thought
was a really good answer.
After the disappointments of Brexit, the UK election,
Trump, climate change, Syria etc I have just about given up on politics. It is
political ideologies, organised religions and greedy corporations that are
destroying the world. We are all individually responsible for helping to create this mess. The world
will only get better when each individual person gets their own house in order,
and that is what I intend to do. I'll start today by tidying this place up a bit. See you tomorrow.
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