I know what I don’t want.
I know what doesn’t work for me.
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There is peace and solitude in wildness. Skies, grey and inpenetrable, and wind fierce enough to leave even the strongest of us staggering for a moment.
Take a turn off the quiet country road linking Sherborne and Dorchester and park up in the isolated, and free, car park. Take a stroll past the ancient Kettle Bridge (very old) and walk along the bank of the Cerne River (very beautiful) and you will soon find yourself in the centre of the village.
And as much as I love people, and I do, I really do, I also need to be away from them to allow myself time to think and just be me.
I've spent way too long trying to write something clever about this image. Something about “chocolate box” views and changing aesthetics and tastes.
I spoke to someone today who accidentally said that he thought something that he had created was cool. And then he realised that, perhaps, it wasn't cool to actually admit such a thought out loud.
It’s the real, “I want to do this and achieve something” kind of effort, that makes things happen, that’s what I’m talking about here..
And I smile knowingly and allow them a glimpse, no more, into a world that I know they will love and want to know more about. Everyone does, that's the thing. Every time, that story, it's always a winner.
I am drawn to the quiet. To the rundown. To the old and historic, yes, but places away from where the tourists disembark their coaches. Places that are a little rough, perhaps, and those that have, almost certainly, experienced brighter times and better days.