NOT Written by an AI

Musings Written in a Cabin in the Woods, Without Internet Access, and Which Includes a Review of Calivno’s Works, “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller” and “Cosmicomics”

Muse
6 min readNov 5, 2023
Photo by Olivier Guillard on Unsplash

The honest truth is that if I’m not drinking, and if I’m not feeling driven to do something urgently (either my job, or some domestic / life-admin type duty), then I’m at a bit of a loss as to what to do with myself.

These moments are exceedingly rare in my life, or they have been.

I’m experiencing one now (its why I’m writing this), and I have a firm intention to experience more of them going forward.

I’m in my cottage — it isn’t exactly alone in the woods, but it is closer to that than most of my domestic life has been lived — and by “domestic life” I merely mean since becoming married and with children I think.

I was going to say, initially, since becoming a father, but of course I did have a short stint when I lived in a small, but beautiful (at least to my eyes), shack in Crystal Waters — and that was quite idylic. And, in fact, before that I lived in a pretty little house half way up a mountain, and that was a truly beautiful setting, but my memories of that time are not idylic, and that is because I was never relaxed or at…

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Muse

Muse spent his youth searching the world for meaning, and good parties. He has now settled down to the quiet life of a writer, business owner, and father of 5.