An uncommon answer

Posted by Simon Parke, 23 Apr 2019

‘What should I do to be happy?’

It’s a common question and the uncommon answer is:

‘Do nothing.’

Mmmm….this doesn’t go down well…

On meeting yourself

Posted by Simon Parke, 23 Apr 2019

Sometimes you simply feel like yourself.

Do you have these moments?

Perhaps you feel more like yourself than you’ve felt since childhood, someone infinitely vulnerable and infinitely free.

And this gives you a clue as to your identity…

Miriam and the courtyard mockery

Posted by Simon Parke, 15 Apr 2019

For Holy Week, a fictionalised account of the courtyard mockery of Jesus before his crucifixion.

This scene is told through the eyes of Miriam. (Mary Magdalene.) I use the Aramaic version of Jesus - Yeshua.

I pace up and down, up and down. I pace like a mad woman outside the prison walls…

Vincent, starry starry night...in Isleworth

Posted by Simon Parke, 15 Apr 2019

Vincent’s time in England was coming to an end. But he was still walking across London - walking and looking. He brought a painter’s loving eye to the sights he beheld; sights others might not have noticed.

‘I remember Acton Green…

Vincent: Reviews and brief biography

Posted by Simon Parke, 12 Apr 2019

The Amazon page for my ‘Conversations with Vincent Van Gogh’ is presently fortunate enough to have only five star reviews. (Always a dangerous observation.)

Here are three of them, to give you a sense of the book; followed by a ‘Brief (but not shallow) Life’ of Vincent.

‘I loved this book.

Simon Parke manages the impossible here…