Friday, August 20, 2010
6:15 AM. A little hard to get moving today.
Remember to balance. You observed the exhaustion in your son-in-law’s eyes from work and child and too little sleep. Your life is easier than his — but you are older, too. So, be wary of disregarding balance, in your anxiety to press ahead. No, not anxiety, exactly, but anyway your continued enthusiasm and avid interest and deep satisfaction. Any of these might tempt a person into imbalance; together they are a powerful lure.
It isn’t much different from Hemingway in the middle of writing a book, I imagine.
No, quite wrong. He tried to balance every day. You do that mentally but not physically.
All right, I’m trying to be careful. And I just got that (of course) this is as much for the benefit of those who can overhear us as for myself.