Merle Haggard's train finally came in and it has left the station. Mine's due to arrive in twenty to thirty years if I'm lucky and possibly two and half weeks if I were to have a stroke tomorrow but odds are and if I were a betting man I would say I've got a good ten years of writing left in me. If I write something every day for the next ten years I win the bet. It's not love, but it's not bad. Reading John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress. Incredible read. And such a joy to be holding an 1878 copy of his great works. Somebody wrote in handwriting on the inside cover a gift from so and so and then wrote the date, 1878. Over 100 years ago a man wrote on the inside cover of the book that I am reading today in 2023. I suppose this would seem like a far off land to that man. I like going back in time with a book like that. And there may be not other book like that one. For one thing it is they say the second most read book in the h...
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