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    STAR LETTER

    Jan 06, 2022 6 minutes

    REACH FOR THE STARS

    In April 2022, it will have been 32 years since NASA launched the Hubble Space Telescope. An upcoming anniversary that reminds me of that Oscar Wilde quote: ‘We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.’

    Some days, as many others do I imagine, I feel very much ‘in the gutter’. But I think writing inspires the inward-looking soul to turn their gaze outward, towards inspiring views. At least, I know that writing tends to lift me from my own doldrums. It’s not a miracle cure, and it doesn’t solve everything. But it allows me to turn my mind to other things, if only for a while. Spending time on research takes my mind off my problems. Considering an issue from the point of view of others plucks me from my own little life for a while. Concentrating as I edit a thing… I find it all therapeutic.

    I hope, one day, that my writing

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