There's a strong aspect of Buddhism which is geared towards ending all fertility.

To me the seventies represent normality, and, of course, it is a normality that is now anachronistic.

Some Buddhists, however, never seem to get past the void, and I suppose I view this as a kind of Buddhist 'Old Testament' that I don't especially like.

People often refer to a creative ability as a 'gift', and, of course, it is, in that, if I had sat down and logically tried to work out who I was and what I should do, I would never have come up with the idea of writing. It was already there, gratis, a given - a gift.

There's a strong aspect of Buddhism which is geared towards ending all fertility.

I never went to church as a child. I did not .

I understand that words can mean different things to different people, and, further, that people can have different relationships with complex abstract entities such as Buddhism. To me, anyway, the entity in my life that conflicts with my creativity is Buddhism.