Winter solstice

Must be noted... as every year... that as of today the days will once again be lengthening.

Must be explained... the longest break in blog posting since I started sharing my thoughts with a handful of loyal readers. The reason is that I have been working very hard to fulfill the wish expressed by my daughter... that I should write a memoir, to make some kind of sense out of what I have experienced in over seven long decades. A mammoth undertaking, for I find it impossible to tell any kind of story without using images. Thus I have been spending hours going through my archives to find relevant photos, exploring Google StreetView to find many of the places where I have lived over the years, scouring the Web to find illustrations expressive of the mood of an era.

The whole thing is still a 'work in progress', the 140 pages completed reaching only to the autumn of 1968. But is is an undertaking which I am finding increasingly fascinating.