Meditations For Mortals is a book by Oliver Burkeman, and it’s a Sunday Times best seller. I wouldn’t have dragged myself off the couch to see him speak but Tamara wanted to go. The sound system was atrocious so I wasn’t getting the best out of the hour of the interview.
Somehow or other some people found themselves with more than one copy of the book to be signed, so I stood in the queue with Tamara, book in hand.
The staff offered little post-its for us to add the wording we wanted, but I had a simple message so I didn’t take one. When it was my turn I said I didn’t have a post-it but it was simple – just ‘To David’. I think I can manage that, he said and we looked at each other and Oliver Burkeman turns out to be a lovely person, generous with his appraisal of others – which is all one can ask in life.
The tag line of his book is ‘Stop trying to sort yourself out. Start living.
Here he is signing my wife’s copy of the book as they chatted about things.
Very low light in the room, so this shot with my Ricoh GR III had to be at ISO 3200 to get any kind of decently fast shutter speed (1/60th second) at the maximum f2.8 aperture. And the camera kept failing to find focus because of the dim light, so I am glad I managed a shot with him smiling.
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