Devenish

Rokko Island Running Track (50 metres from Sean's school, (snow dusted) Rokko Mountain in the distance). Most Sundays, like yesterday, I am standing on this spot around 10:15, on the starting line of a 5.1 km (3 mile) run. My times are improving at the moment, which is some compensation for the effort.) Click to play * Today being my mother's birthday, the very least I can do is to breath some sign of life into this dormant blog. Of course, it's not the least I could do—and really, I know it's very far from adequate, but it's perhaps the best I can do, faute de mieux . For a variety of reasons, some of which I'll briefly enumerate, and some of which are good—whether these are the same set of reasons, you can judge better than me—I find it increasingly difficult to compose a decent article. I know I can do it—or rather, I have been able to in the recent past—but when push comes to shove, it's that much easier to retreat into one of the