A paperback book…often some classic I should have read in college but didn’t want to…, a camera, a legal pad, and a pen. I write a letter…yes, actual pen to paper…every night and I read while cooking dinner and eating it. When the sun goes down, I go to bed. I don’t usually take a lamp of any kind.
I’ve force myself to read The Iliad and the Odessey, War and Peace, The Plague by Camus, and others.