I have slowed down considerably, to say the least, but the fire in the mind still lights my world. And reading, the daily wonder of 
reading, supplies fuel in abundance.
- I am astonished, and disheartened, how constitutional reform in Guyana so easily slips down the agenda of vital things to be done. Oppositions shout about it being a priority and then become governments and lose all enthusiasm for it. I read the words of the eminent Oxford historian Lionel Curtis (1872-1955) and clearly see why this is bound to happen: