The notion of time travel fascinated me then (and does now) and fed a preoccupation with the future and the nature of time that Terence and I shared.
This might upset many people, but I believe that, from a young age, boys have a parent-fed preoccupation with doing as many sports activities as they possibly can.
Death, and the foretelling of death and the pyschic seeing of funeral processions, has long been a Highland preoccupation, one fed by the hellfire preachers of the Scottish churches.
Whatever it was that I recognised in her, or she in me, I am sure that it had something to do with her curiosity and fascination around issues of belonging, a preoccupation that was fed by her two years in Japan.
Feeding their budding preoccupations with social status and staying up late, many teens now have so much late-night stimulation texting with friends, watching YouTube videos, not to mention doing their homework that despite exhaustion, they stay awake well into the night.
A 2016 study in Appetite asked subjects how they were fed as children and also measured current food preoccupation and emotional eating.
Neither is the church completely alone in the preoccupation with same-sex marriage, which has fed passionate and unresolved political debates in France and Britain.
At the same time, she manages to show how his friendship with Leo and the two men's relationships with their wives and children shape their work in myriad seen and unseen ways: how an artist or scholar's mundane domestic preoccupations can feed or hobble his craft, and how intellectual preoccupations can consciously or unconsciously shape an individual's life.
Meanwhile, uncertainties about the economy tend to feed through into a preoccupation with health care.
And Los Angeles seemed like such a huge metropolis compared to Oahu". It was the sensation of being an outsider that fed Lee's growing bank of observations, which in turn fed into his preoccupation with acting; he left school in 1987 to join Romeo's new theater group on North Vermont Avenue, the Friends and Artists Theater Ensemble.
One of my favorite preoccupations is feeding the fauna.
