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Caught between avoidance mechanisms

Limits beget creativity. I was caught on the edge between two avoidance mechanisms—avoid the anxiety of going to the supermarket, or avoid the anxiety of not having a food stockade [https://bcgriff.com/humor/wear-protective-face-bandana-outlaw/] sufficient to avoid going to the supermarket. I settled on

The next Lady Rosamund

I watched the second half of the first episode of Downton Abbey [https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/shows/downton-abbey/]’s final season last night. Where were the men? The Christmas special closing season five had Edith “feeling alive again” in the company of the property agent who will

CousinAnnelovesDownton

Mom tells me she found Howard’s End [https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/shows/howards-end/] the series on PBS the evening before. It was good. She liked it. “But I fell asleep.” OK, so here’s a series we could potentially watch together. It’s time to give

The uber-masculine caped and coated Thomas Cromwell

How actors bring themselves to a role. I started watching Wolf Hall [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Hall_(miniseries)] last night on PBS. It’s good. It’s more than good. It lacks the pure entertainment value that Poldark [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poldark_(2015_TV_series)] and

Shared sicky-ness

Nostalgia for times ex-boyfriend and I fell ill at same time. Coughed four or five times, mildly, as I was falling asleep last night. Then woke early and was wide awake. The banging of the radiator and warming room when it wasn’t that cool to begin with might