25Aug/03Off
Home
Three years ago, I moved into this flat. I became propertied. I began to live completely by myself for the first time after thirty four years. The first time I closed the door behind me and was alone in the then-empty space, it was a revelation. In many ways, the act of coming home and shutting the world outside has never lost its magic for me.
I'm a highly social person, as I think you all know, but there's a part of me, and it's not a small part, that treasures my solitude. This space, small and insignificant as it is, is what allows me to *have* that solitude, and I don't regret a single solitary moment I've spent in it.
I shall be raising a small glass of something distilled in 1976 later to mark the occasion.