Julian Summerhayes
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Deus sive Natura
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Today's blog
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A Ship of Fools
“Man has two wings: one wing is his own will and the other wing is the will of God. Man has to learn to fly using both of them. Without using the wing of God’s will, his flight is erroneous, errati…
https://juliansummerhayes.wordpress.com/2026/06/10/a-ship-of-fools/
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“We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.” ― Carlos Castaneda, Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan
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Pure tranquility; you can just see the rain on the river which makes it even more special.
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waking sleep
“You can have the courage to climb the mountain, swim the lakes, go on a raft to the other side of the Atlantic or Pacific. That any fool can do, but the courage to be on your own, to stand on your…
https://juliansummerhayes.wordpress.com/2026/06/09/waking-sleep/
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the business of business
Make money. Make more money. And then selectively share the profits with the members. Or at least that’s the plan (some never get there). What else? Not much, or so it seems. Yes, there are l…
https://juliansummerhayes.wordpress.com/2026/06/08/the-business-of-business/
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Walking
“There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prol…
https://juliansummerhayes.wordpress.com/2026/06/07/walking/
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Imagine if a politician was kind, polite and humble. Oh, and if they could listen without constantly interrupting that would be a blessing, too.
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I wish politics could bring people together in a way that wasn't forced, & prescriptive but was sincere and meaningful. But of course with Farage et al. pulling the strings, that's never going to happen.
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The end of the road
“Park of holesis death the diseasedpresence on us, the spilling lesion”– Charles Olson, The Maximums Poems For quite some time, my blog has become a bleak place. I wish it were ot…
https://juliansummerhayes.wordpress.com/2026/06/05/the-end-of-the-road/
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Happiness
The blog is back. I haven’t had it go down for a long time, and I’d forgotten what it felt like to think you’d lost the lot. // I don’t tend to write about happiness. In sho…
https://juliansummerhayes.wordpress.com/2026/06/04/happiness/
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skinskin
9 days ago
Near sunset 21
#art
#photo
#photography
#Tainan
#ECK
#sky
#clouds
#sunset
#silhouette
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Today's poetry reading: The Contender by Ted Hughes. (My reading is from his book "Crow".)
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Mend my life
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”― Jean-Paul Sartre What if we started from …
https://juliansummerhayes.wordpress.com/2026/06/02/mend-my-life/
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Here now
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Charles Bukowski - Born Into This - Dinosauria, We
YouTube video by Alf
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Retirement
Does anyone truly retire? Sure, we stop work and live a different life, but is that the same thing? I’m not sure. To me, the idea of retirement suggests a temporary sojourn — i.e. to re…
https://juliansummerhayes.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/retirement/
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My next poet to explore
www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/charle...
(there is a very strong link with Ezra Pound)
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Charles Olson
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/charles-olson
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Not long back from my morning walk
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“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” ― Franz Kafka
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Today's blog: Modernism
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Modernism
“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.” — T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land I could happily give up work and spend the rest of my life researching and writing about “Modernism…
https://juliansummerhayes.wordpress.com/2026/05/30/modernism/
12 days ago
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Does anyone remember Patrick McGoohan? Or what about John Fowles? Or Ted Hughes?
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Here is the new ADO bike, which I've put together and given a spin this afternoon. It rides like a dream and is brilliantly made; I can't wait to take it on my first train journey and do some commuting at the other end. (The grass needs a cut!)
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Here now. My favourite radio programme by a country mile
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BBC Radio 3 - Night Tracks, Blissful sounds for night owls
Sara Mohr-Pietsch with an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002whnl
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Today's blog: "I'm OK"
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I’m OK
A Sort of Preface. By definition, there can be no hope for a book like this – its very existence is dubious. If all is for naught, then why bother writing it down? Caught in a vicious circle, ensna…
https://juliansummerhayes.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/im-ok/
13 days ago
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Lawyers and AI will no doubt give rise to another wave of claims farming.
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Mike D London
14 days ago
I see Farage has just re-emerged on X to post about banning cousin marriage, which he says is 'inherently un-British'. He'll surely be horrified to find out that Queen Victoria married her first cousin Albert before ruling over the Right's beloved British Empire at its peak.
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Why does everyone appear to take things so seriously on LinkedIn?
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Another writer whose work I should have read long before now -- Paul Fussell
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This Book on World War I Changed How I Think of Nonfiction (Published 2025)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/books/review/paul-fussell-great-war-and-modern-memory.html
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skinskin
20 days ago
#Scape
#ECK
〆のそら
#art
#photo
#photography
#sky
#clouds
#sun
#Tainan
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Something I caught by camera earlier in the week.
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“When solutions produce problems, when thought flounders in the absence of order, unity, and purpose, when healthy skepticism turns into pathological sarcasm – this is usually when pessimism enters the fray.” ― Eugene Thacker, Infinite Resignation
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Misery
misery(n.) late 14c., “state of grievous affliction, condition of external unhappiness,” from Old French misere “miserable situation, misfortune, distress” (12c.),…
https://juliansummerhayes.wordpress.com/2026/05/28/misery/
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“I wanted the whole world or nothing.” ― Charles Bukowski, Post Office
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How does Tony Blair tell us in his underhanded way that the (so-called) AI-revolution is the same as or no different to the Industrial Revolution? Pants if you ask me. It bears no comparison. In any event, Blake had it right: "The Dark Satanic Mills".
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I have ordered a new e-bike. I've had to accept that my fitness is not what it was but riding a bike is still important to me. It's a folding e-bike so I can take it on the train and in the car. I'm not worried about what I look like or my top speed. Riding is all that matters.
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The End is Nigh
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‘Planetary destruction on fast-forward’: witnessing the disappearance of Indonesia’s ‘eternity glaciers’
Researchers racing to document Oceania’s last tropical glaciers found the remaining “eternal snow” in Indonesia’s West Papua region has lost almost all its ice
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/27/witnessing-the-disappearance-of-indonesia-eternity-glaciers
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To have it all
“When you accept everything, everything is beyond dimensions. The earth is not great nor a grain of sand small. In the realm of Great Activity picking up a grain of sand is the same as taking up th…
https://juliansummerhayes.wordpress.com/2026/05/27/to-have-it-all/
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Our last breath
“Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.”― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets This post chimes with what I wrote yesterd…
https://juliansummerhayes.wordpress.com/2026/05/26/our-last-breath/
16 days ago
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I am just back from my morning walk. For the last couple of days I've gone out without a phone, so that I'm not tempted to look at it or play the obligatory audiobook. This morning's images were taken on a little Fuji camera.
#noedits
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In the garden
“That corpse you planted last year in your garden,’Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?”― T.S. Eliot Yesterday, I spent time in the garden. Not too long, as it was blindingly hot …
https://juliansummerhayes.wordpress.com/2026/05/25/in-the-garden/
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It’s all mine
It’s hard to articulate how much change I’ve witnessed. The obvious example would be technology but it’s the behaviour of people that vexes me. To say we’re narcissistic or …
https://juliansummerhayes.wordpress.com/2026/05/24/its-all-mine/
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On our own
Being here comes with enormous responsibility — not least to Self. There are plenty of guides but few that know much about salvation. Salvation? To become who we truly are. Instead, we have t…
https://juliansummerhayes.wordpress.com/2026/05/23/on-our-own/
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Today's poetry reading: Mary Oliver's oracular poem, The Buddha's Last Instruction.
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Problem solving
“The weight of the world is love.Under the burden of solitude,under the burden of dissatisfactionthe weight,the weight we carry is love. ”― Allen Ginsberg This is such a lame title. But (I suppose)…
https://juliansummerhayes.wordpress.com/2026/05/22/problem-solving/
20 days ago
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Ted Hughes's stunning poem, Earth-Numb.
#poetry
#tedhughes
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I'm so buried in legal stuff right now. I'm not quite at the "we need a bigger boat stage" but I feel like I'm slowly drowning.
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Words
I sit here, staring at my screen. I wait to hear the words arrive. They don’t always make sense or sound right but I’m able to craft something. But I know, as hackneyed as it sounds, it…
https://juliansummerhayes.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/words/
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My latest book of poetry
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“Oh yes, I know the way to heaven was easy. We found the little kingdom of our passion that all can share who walk the road of lovers. In wild and secret happiness we stumbled; and gods and demons clamoured in our senses.” ― Siegfried Sassoon, Poems
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So serious
Lighten up, Ju. There is much to be thankful for. And you’re right. And yet, I can’t shake the feeling that this isn’t normal. In what sense? In the sense that (say) Peter Zapffe …
https://juliansummerhayes.wordpress.com/2026/05/17/so-serious/
25 days ago
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“A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.” ― Paul Klee
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