Herry's Journal

A selection of writings, speeches, photographs and events as well as some of my favourite literary passages.

Sunday, 17 September 2006

The Dressing Table (poem by my daughter)

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Annette Lawford There you sat, one leg folded over the other Your wooden stick by you The one you’d had since you were twenty Sinc...
Saturday, 16 September 2006

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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These are just a few of my favourite verses: One Moment in Annihilation's Waste, One Moment, of the Well of Life to taste - ...
Friday, 15 September 2006

Edna St Vincent Millay - Love Is Not All

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Love is not all: it is not meat and drink Nor slumber, nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink...
Sunday, 27 August 2006

Favourite Museums - Miho Museum, Japan

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The Miho Museum houses Mihoko Koyama's private collection of Asian and Western antiques bought by the Shumei organisation. Mihoko K...
Sunday, 13 August 2006

Heine

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A young man loved a maiden Who turned from him aside To one who loved another yet And took her for his bride The maid at sore resentment At ...

Song of Solomon

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Cherry blossom in Battersea Park The Song of Solomon My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come awa...
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Saturday, 12 August 2006

The Dazzling Fluidity of Days

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No medium has yet been devised for the translation of life into language, nor can any words recall the dazzling fluidity of days. Single yet...
Wednesday, 9 August 2006

Hampshire 45 Years Ago

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Stocks and Harvestgate Farms below Old Winchester Hill    I grew up here. Nothing has changed in the more than forty years since thi...
Monday, 24 July 2006

Ramesh Balsekar

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Ramesh giving his daily talk in his house in Bombay, surrounded by pictures of his guru, Nisargadatta Maharaj An inscripti...

More Freya Stark

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My grandmother as I knew her came into being-always a little of a problem, living with this relative or that, or in lodgings at the end of l...
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