A Most Unsymphonic Pigeon is a place where my procrastinations can gather, workshop things, swap knitting patterns, join unions, and basically amplify their strength against creative projects of supposedly greater significance.

You can't have everything.

Steve McCarthy

I love to be in a bookshop. It’s one of my highest states of mobile happiness. But conditions have to be right. I must have no one with me, have nowhere to be, be looking for nothing in particular, and not be stopping in on my way to buy haemorrhoid cream.

Today, I have all but one of these things.

Understanding the brutal necessity of lack.