So Ya Knows

What’s in front of your nose?

George Orwell wrote “To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle. One thing that helps toward it is to keep a diary, or, at any rate, to keep some kind of record of one’s opinions about important events. Otherwise, when some particularly absurd belief is exploded by events, one may simply forget that one ever held it…. In general, one is only right when either wish or fear coincides with reality.” (“In Front of Your Nose” Tribune, 22 March 1946. See also, George Orwell: Narrative Essays, Harvill Secker publisher)

Notes are records. Awareness is witness. Evidence is reality.

With credit to speech by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, March 5, 2026.