Jonna filled the teakettle in the bathroom. Looking in the mirror, looking at her own face, she thought with sudden bitterness that it couldn’t go on like this, these short stories that were never finished and just went on and on getting rewritten and discarded and picked up again, all those words that got changed and changed places and I can’t remember how they were yesterday and what’s happened to them today! I’m tired!
– Tove Jansson, Fair Play
Indeed…
We all have our challenges. I find Jonna and Mari’s openness comforting. It reminds us we are not alone.
Yes, that’s a good way of putting it!