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A reading: Sonnet 18, Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? A reading.
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La Belle Dame Sans Merci – John Keats – a Reading
Sometimes sad and sometimes not, our stories and our poems, our Green Ladies and our Belles Dames are reflections of our desires and anxieties.
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Isness
Happiness is only attainable once you recognize that everything just “is”.
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My Old Sweet Etcetera – A Reading
For Eleanor. This anti war poem, written by American poet EE Cummings and published in 1926, is such a perfect specimen of the genre.
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The Shameful, Avoidable Horror of Dementia and Old Age
We would put an animal down, surely we can offer the same courtesy to a human?
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The Little Drummer Girl
I read the book with much enjoyment many years ago, but this lavish BBC adaptation of John Le Carré’s 1983 novel raises the bar to very high levels indeed.
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Why I doubt my Existence
I believe that I am merely a “program” and that similar programs run every animal and living thing on earth.
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Joy to the World
I will never be able to resolve my unshakable disbelief in Christian dogma with the profound peace I find singing sacred classical music in an ancient English church with a good choir.
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Are you what you read?
The modern trope would have it that you are what you eat, but the metaphor needs taking further.
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Father and Son
There comes a time in your life when, if you are lucky enough to have a son, you recognize he has become a man. And of course to you, a very special one.