https://livesteven.com/2026/06/22/the-best-advice-is-to-be-aware-of-and-distrust-the-impulse-or-the-advice-of-others-that-you-be-always-in-control-of-what-you-say-and-do-for-it-too-often-means-that-you-surrender-yourself-to-the-con/Steve_Bamlett_blogen2026-06-22T15:53:31+00:00The best advice is to be aware of and distrust the impulse, or the advice of others, that you be always in control of what you say and do, for it too often means that you surrender yourself to the controlling ideologies of the status quo, which is, often as not, embodied by that which demands your self-control. I think I learned this from Adam Nicolson’s characterisation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his ‘The Making of Poetry’ (2019)dailyprompt, poetry, writing, poems, literature, history, william-wordsworth, dailyprompt-2801, s-t-coleridge, adam-nicolson, the-making-of-poetry-coleridge, the-wordsworths, and-the-year-of-marvels, dorothy-wordsworthhttps://livesteven.com/2026/06/21/colonial-mars-some-verse-for-elon/Steve_Bamlett_blogen2026-06-21T12:44:19+00:00Colonial Mars: some verse for Elon.dailyprompt, politics, verse, dailyprompt-2792, elon-musk, mars, colonisation