Nature has separated parents and children by an almost impassable barrier of time; the mind and the heart are in quite a different state at fifteen and forty.
- Sara Coleridge
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I've just begun Richard Holmes' latest work, The Age of Wonder, and it's as good as everyone says it is.
tags: The Blue Bird, Mary Coleridge,
Mixing Memory posted an interesting reply to my "Gladwell is the New Freud" post. He argued that my "Freud bashing was just wrong":
Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
My Dad's 40 years older than me. We get along fine.
Don't have kids when you're 25 then I guess.