Reading in Total Time

I don't know if it's a tradition, a habit, or a reasonable thing to do, but on Sunday afternoons you can often find both Kathy and I cozied up to a good book. Not the same book, different ones but similar in that we tend to seek out non-fiction and contemporary. Today I finished Jeanette Winterson's memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? I have enjoyed some of her other writings, and this book is particularly well-written and an interesting reflection on her heartbreaking childhood and its impact on her adult life.

Here are a few of her words; this comes at the beginning of a chapter called Intermission:

"I am more than halfway through my biological life and about halfway through my creative life. I measure time as we all do, and partly by the fading body, but in order to challenge linear time, I try and live in total time. I recognise that life has an inside as well as an outside and that events separated by years lie side by side imaginatively and emotionally."