It\’s good news week
My memoir now available as an ebook from Booktopia: https://www.booktopia.com.au/hammering-on-the-mind-s-door-david-horton/ebook/9781761096297.html
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archaeology
Early warning
Advance notice of my new book here – a long time (23 years) coming, but I have had a few roadblocks to overcome – https://www.ginninderrapress.com.au/store.php?product/page/3057/David+Horton+%2F+Hammering+on+the+mind%27s+door Publication date set for 14 October. I don\’t know whether you can advance order. Perhaps you could let me know in comments here.
Payment due
Writing a memoir is a life’s work. It has to be earned by the lines of your face, the wrinkles of your hands, the night fears of your sleep, the weariness of your brain, the failing of your body, and finished just in time.
Mine
I wonder what he was thinking, that first man who chewed a mouthful of pigment and then blew it over his hand pressed tight against the wall of a cave?
The lost generation
When I see an unusual familiar name in the news, I think, “Oh that must be the daughter (or son) of someone who I once knew”. Turns out, these days, it’s usually a grandchild.
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Tell, a story
In the ancient city mounds of the Middle East, flat layers of mud, one on top of the other, are the squashed remains of houses and streets, flat like pages in a history book, the lives of people in each generation, reduced to a few inches of mud baked in a thousand years of Sun