Someone else's words, and some of my own.

"The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself...

"Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss...

"So the point of my keeping a notebook has never been, nor is it now, to have an actual factual record of what I have been doing or thinking. That would be a different impulse entirely, an instinct which I do not possess."

- Joan Didion, On Keeping a Notebook


I would like to note now how truly madly deeply I will miss Servapan and Molotov--The Boys--with their earnest and dainty stare downs, and their feline eccentricities.