This *is* Reginald Gibbons but I rarely have time to post comments… For which I’m sorry, but I am wrestling with a very long book and it’s taking a lot of my time…. Hoping to finish it by the end of 2025.

Hope you have found a way to keep enough time for your writing and reading, amidst daily life. I might be able to upload an essay that I completed a while ago, regarding our use of intuition and of “objects” in daily life. “Objects” meaning anything tangible or mental that are resonant things that stay with us when we’re able to retrieve them from our unconscious, and make use of them. What we see in ordinary moments are not what I mean. Persons, places, events, feelings, dialogues, discoveries, travels, and writing itself… are–in psychoanalytical terms–what’s always brewing in our unconscious and with which, if we can retrieve something valuable from all of that–we can make use of those objects, the feelings that they evoke–whether good or bad–etc., as we write: poems, fiction, essays, autobiographical pieces…