December 2005
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Inner Game
When I was an undergraduate I discovered Timothy Gallwey’s book The Inner Game Of Tennis, and his other inner game books. Although I’d never been interested in tennis, golf or music-making, I was fascinated to see the way he analysed and articulated the inner psychology of outer activity. I recognised that this ‘inner approach’ was applicable to almost anything you did, so the specific activity wasn’t important. As a teenager, after two years of karate…
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Lake District Photography: Over At Wasdale
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life – John Muir Wasdale is the most remote part of the Lake District, a convenient base for England’s highest mountain and home to its deepest lake. The road, either from…