MEANWHILE ...

I re-read Gregory Bateson's paper 'Social planning and the concept of deutero-learning (Steps pp 159-176), especially the concluding paragraph: " All we need to be sure of is that, at any moment, achievement may be just around the corner, and, true or false, this can never be tested. We have got to be like those few artists and scientists who work with this urgent sort of inspiration, the urgency that comes from feeling that great discovery, the answer to all our problems, or great creation, the perfect sonnet, is always only just beyond our reach, or like the mother of a child who feels that, provided she pay constant enough attention, there is real hope that her child may be that infinately rare phenomenon, a great and happy person'

- Nordahl Grieg's poem' Kringsatt av fiender' comes to mind 'som om du bar et barn, varsomt på armen'