Herry's Journal

My favourite historian, Arnold Toynbee, holds that civilizations are ruled by charm (of the 'creative minority') as ...

Nooooooooo! , originally uploaded by Wolfiewolf .

'I see humanity as a family that has hardly met. I see the meeting of people, bodies, thoughts, emotions or actions as the start of mo...

One of my favourite wines - a 'Far Niente' from California. It probably has the most beautiful label of all. I...

The sound of the Gion Shōja bells echoes the impermanence of all things; the color of the sāla flowers reveals the truth that t...

More images of spring in London; one of the sunniest on record. This Banksian is the first to flower in the garden and the lilacs are spr...

Om. I am neither the mind, Intelligence, ego nor ‘chitta’ Neither the ears, nor the tongue, Nor the senses of smell and sight, Neither ether...

A fine old wisteria struggling with the evening chill on the terrace of Danesfield House, Marlow

My office stands in the shadow of the Gherkin (Swiss Re) but our building is being redeveloped and is being let to run down. Millers wil...

The Eternal Parent [the great Matrix], wrapped in her ever-invisible Robes, had slumbered once again for seven eternities. Time was no...