Herry's Journal

When I was in grade school, we learned the very basics of how the  Third Reich  came to power in the early 1930s. Paramilitary gangs terro...

The King James' Bible at Litchfield Having attended a meditation on the life of William Tyndale at Bossington Church recently, I h...

The Authorised Version of King James' Bible, published in 1611, was translated from the Latin and Hebrew by six committees of scho...

Peter Brueghel the Elder - Nederlandisch Proverbs I am sometimes given to complaining that modern paintings seem to have no meaning or ...

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Pieter Bruegel the Elder W.H. Auden,  Musée des Beaux Arts About suffering they were never w...

I am not able to write with any authority on grief as I have never experienced it. But others have and do. Instead, I often give friends wh...

Katrin Juliane Meissner 27 September at 21:49 With so many people hitting the streets for climate strike and all the recent attack...

I have long been troubled by our attitude to dogs, but it's heresy to question extreme dog-centric behaviour and I content myself with ...

“The dark second-floor apartment of the house in Market Square was shot through each day by the naked heat of summer: the silence of th...

Lu at Nick and Jay Jay's wedding 1975 http://lawfordherry.blogspot.com/2019/07/obituary-lu-wanklyn-1945-2019.html?m=1