the gestation and birth of this blog

Jude
Next week, from this far out, is looking horrible. Crazy! Back from the festival and straight into a two-day course with an hour and a half commute each way. Each side taken up with dinners and parties and obligations committed to months prior. What a week! Congested, stuffed full, bulging. The question I posed to Isha this evening was:
Which book will be the best one to read in these precious moments I have to myself on the train, in order to get through the rest of the week?

Isha
Were it me, I'd take 'Long Dark Nights of the Soul' - Thomas Moore

Jude
Ah! Thomas Moore. A quote:
The very successful creative people I know are happy with their lives, but even then you can see how the need to be habitually inventive makes them eccentric. You wonder how comfortable they are. They have money and adulation, but they never fit in with "normal" people. The well-known have to struggle to get some privacy, and the lesser known are always looking for recognition.

I think that's a lovely summary of an interesting situation.

Isha
Over years, I found in my melt-down times that Moore holds the space for me to hit rock-bottom with a sense of purpose and the comfort of knowing that the territory is well-known by many who have gone before me. You remember how Mamma's kiss could soothe most hurts when you were young? Well, reading Moore  soothes the ache of the deep plunge crash landing.

Jude
And so here we sit, drinking tea that is a blend of several jars (labelled 'good blend' and 'unsure'). The dogs are settling in and groaning and farting into the still night air, and we are uncertainly beginning our blog into which book is needed for what situation. Please feel free to comment. We are writing objectively about a subjective situation. For example, Isha and I believe that many of life's problems can be solved by reading My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell, however some people swear by Len Deighton or Colleen McCulloch, Tim Winton or Dostoyevsky. Also if you have a situation, challenge or problem upcoming where the right book might make a bad thing good or a good thing better, drop us a line. We're waiting, stethoscopes in hand, tongue depressors at the ready.

Isha
So now we wait and see what happens.