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How to change the world - and not die in the attempt
Posted by Simon Parke, 4 May 2021
If you desire to change the world, I have a suggestion:
Don’t desire to change the world. It never ends well.
It’s a natural enough wish; it’s almost in the DNA of some of us.
We get up in the morning and there it is: our need to change the world. And how can something so right be wrong?...
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Doctor Johnson
Posted by Simon Parke, 27 Apr 2021
They say Doctor Johnson is a liar
But give him a break, I say, he gets things done, I say.
Breaking away from that old practice in town, run by that Johnny Foreigner fellow, he said it would be ‘rip-roaringly better’
And yes, of course there’s been a bit of bother, appointments cancelled, care compromised, lives lost
But that’s not the point, it really isn’t…
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These daily borderlines
Posted by Simon Parke, 20 Apr 2021
Each day, we arrive at the border line, it’s not always well-marked
The border line between health and decline, between loveliness and loveliness lost
Between caring and needy
Confidence and hubris
Between forethought and anxiety…
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Chasing the dream
Posted by Simon Parke, 14 Apr 2021
I came across my dream in the forest
Saw her clear, and knew her well, though also less than well
Not having seen her before, not so close, not in the flesh - more an idea, a notion
You know how it is with dreams - something other than this, whatever this is, here before me now…
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After the fire
Posted by Simon Parke, 7 Apr 2021
After the fire, when the flames have died, stand still with what was
If the ash still smokes in the morning dew, rake it gently over
As the robin watches on and a leaf scuttles by…
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‘Meet Jesus unplugged,’ writes former Fleet Street editor, Richard Addis, after reading Simon’s latest novel, Gospel: Rumours of Love. ‘In a stunning act of imagination, Simon Parke shatters every stained glass window in your mind.’
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In Solitude: Recovering the power of alone, Simon describes solitude as the active path to inner silence and takes us on an enthralling journey there. In a world of haste and distraction, he commends the way of stillness and withdrawal where we can ‘recover the power of alone’.
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Julian of Norwich, contemporary of both Chaucer and Langland, was the first woman to write a book in English. Yet remarkably, she disappeared from view for 600 years, before her rediscovery in the 20th century. My new novel is Julian’s own telling of her life.
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