I am
speaking of... what every one must know
in his own case: how difficult it is to command himself, and do what he wishes to do; how weak the governing principle of his mind is, and how poorly and imperfectly he comes up to his own notions of right and truth; how difficult it is to command his feelings, grief, anger, impatience, joy, fear; how difficult to govern his own
tongue, to say just what he would; how difficult to rouse himself to do what he would, at this time or that; how difficult to rise
in the
morning; how difficult to go about his duties and not be idle; how difficult to eat and drink just what he should, how difficult to regulate his thoughts through the day; how difficult to keep out of his mind what should be kept out of it.
I had the pleasure of being able to tour a private collection
in Pasadena that
morning then off to the Norton Simon museum and to round out my sojourn east, I swept through a sneak preview of the exhibition «
Speaking in Tongues» of works by Robert Heinecken and Wallace Berman at the Armory Center for the Arts.