Here Hare Here

The Obsessive Diary · Jul 20, 2025 · 2m

Much as I want to get away from categorisations, it does tend to be the men who find the confrontations of this house more challenging than the women. Excepting being if you’ve grown up here, I suppose, it being deeply in your bones. But it is the men who, on meeting themselves, dig in, become stubborn, project and squirm and find any which way out that doesn’t involve stillness and subservience to the lessons being delivered. A disquiet, a something troubling is blamed on an outside source. A rumbling message coming down the tracks is diverted into argument. I have seen it summer after…