Those of you who have read my book will have come across a namecheck in the foreword of a certain Kenneth White. White introduced the term Geopoetics, the meaning of which has informed both my writing and the way that I see the world for a long time-long before I had even heard of Geopoetics or knew what it meant.
Being an admirer of White’s poetry and his waybooks, this afternoon I was sat outside in what is perhaps the final ebb of summer, reading House Of Tides. This quote, of an old Japanese saying, stood out:
In youth a man plays with women, in middle age with the arts, and in old age with a garden.
I put it in context for myself.
Here I am: happily married; playing at being a poet; thinking about peas.
City Jackdaw 
You are only as old as you feel. My grandmother, bless her soul, never become older than 17, ‘because she said so”.
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Your grandmother sounded like a wise woman.
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She was! And a lot of fun!!!! We traveled a lot together; Alaska, Hawaii, roads rips all over Europe.. She was an interesting lady. Sometimes she “disappeared” from time to time, that meant that she was looking for amber in Poland, back when no-one visited Poland.
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That book I said you should write-your grandmother should definitely feature. ‘Looking for amber in Poland’: fantastic.
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Ha ha ha!!!
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🙂
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