I Didn't Write Anything Until I Was

I Have Long Been Interested In Landscape History, And When Younger And More Robust I Used To Do Much Tramping Of The English Landscape In Search Of Ancient Field Systems, Drove Roads, Indications Of Prehistoric Settlement. Towns And Cities, Too, Which Always Retain The Ghost Of Their Earlier Incarnations Beneath Today's Concrete And Glass.

Wars Are Fought By Children. Conceived By Their Mad Demonic Elders, And Fought By Boys.

Getting To Know Someone Else Involves Curiosity About Where They Have Come From, Who They Are.

I'm Intrigued By The Way In Which Physical Appearance Can Often Direct A Person's Life; Things Happen Differently For A Beautiful Woman Than For A Plain One.

If We Had Not Met, That Day, I Think I Would Have Imagined You Somehow.