Category Archives: Thought of the day

Thought of the Day: Tuesday 19th May

My Job

Since keeping house and raising kids

don’t count as jobs, I only ever had one.

I started out as a prentice

at five years old, and at near eighty-five

in most ways I am still one,

being a slow learner. And the work

is quite demanding.

The boss who drives the shiny yellow car

and those nine sisters up there by the spring

are tough, but fair. There’s times

you can’t get them to listen,

but they’ve always got their eyes on you.

They don’t let botched work pass.

Sometimes the pay is terrible.

Sometimes it’s only fairy gold.

Then again sometimes the wages

are beyond imagination and desire.

I am glad to have worked for this company.

Ursula K. Le Guin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin

Thought of the Day: Monday 18th May

The writer must never attempt to impose himself upon his subject. He must not try to mold it according to what he believes his readers or editors want to read. His initial task is to come to know his subject intimately, to understand its every aspect, to let it fill his mind. Then at some turning point, the subject takes command and the true and the true act of creation begins….The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.

Rachel Carson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson#