I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold

What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

I could hear rain still pouring from the gutters and a thin branch scraping against one of the windows; but the church seemed completely cut off from the restless day outside--just as I felt cut off from the church. I thought: I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.

I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.

Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.

Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.