{"id":42872,"date":"2025-02-13T08:31:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T19:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=42872"},"modified":"2025-02-13T08:31:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T19:31:23","slug":"a-riff-on-mondays-tove-jansson-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2025\/02\/13\/a-riff-on-mondays-tove-jansson-quote\/","title":{"rendered":"A Riff On Monday’s Tove Jansson Quote"},"content":{"rendered":"

By way of a reminder, the quote was:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent…\u201d<\/em> <\/strong>~ Tove Jansson, 1914 – 2001<\/span><\/p>\n

Although it is not “a truth universally acknowledged”, I often post a quote when I’m particularly busy beavering on WALL and don’t want to lose momentum.<\/p>\n

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And that w<\/em>as<\/em> the case on Monday — but I do really love this quote, so I hope it put a spring in your step, not only on Monday but for the rest of this week.<\/p>\n

As for “not tiring”, “never losing interest”, and “never growing indifferent” (to paraphrase very slightly \ud83d\ude42 ) I can assure that although it has been quite a slog, I have never lost interest or grown indifferent to the WALL story.<\/p>\n

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By way of true confessions, I may<\/em> (do!) sometimes feel tired — but that is what rests are for and I always come back to the writing desk with the batteries recharged. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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A time-out spot<\/p><\/div>\n

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Coffee essential<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By way of a reminder, the quote was: \u201cIt is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent…\u201d ~ Tove Jansson, 1914 – 2001 Although it is not “a truth universally acknowledged”, I often post a quote when I’m particularly busy beavering on WALL and don’t want to lose momentum. And that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42872"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42880,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42872\/revisions\/42880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}