The last of three stories about relationships between adults and children, drawn from real-life.
The stories are written and read by Julia Blackburn, whose most recent book 'The Three Of Us' has won the 2009 Pen/Ackerley prize for memoir and autobiography.
The stories have Julia's mesmerising delicacy of touch in the way they describe human relationships and her capacity to find the best in people while encompassing their frailty.
Three Buzzing Boys
When Julia meets Dominique she is reminded of naturalist Gilbert White's account of a young boy in the village of Selbourne. The boy sleeps by the hearth during the winter and wakes in the spring, going from hive to hive, eating honey, keeping live bees under his shirt, and buzzing with strange contentment.
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. Do you agree?
Posted by: Air Jordan | Sunday, January 23, 2011 at 02:43 AM
I would have to agree.
That being said, for too long, I did not live by this. I dithered and wasted opportunity which for too long stared me in the face.
Only with the benefit of hindsight can I now see how I should have let the cards fall where they may. I should have grasped the nettle. Now too much water is under the bridge and in fact life, as it tends to do, has moved on.
I think that at life's end regret for opportunities not investigated always outweighs remorse for a good effort gone wrong, so any idea is worth the jump.
In fact my opinion is that any idea is better than inertia, except where to do nothing is the choice itself.
Posted by: Gullbad | Saturday, July 02, 2011 at 03:47 PM