Status Updates From Journal of Katherine Mansfield

"What happiness it is to listen to rain at night; joyful relief, ease; a lapping-round and hushing and brooding tenderness, all are mingled together in the sound of the fast-falling rain."

Dec 8 "I thought and thought this morning but not to much avail. I can't think why, but my wits seem to be nearly deserting me when I get back to earth. I am all right - sky high. And even in my brain, in my head, I can think and act and write wonders - wonders; but the moment I really try to put them down I fail miserably."