table of contents

  1.  1976 Prediction of the Mighty System
  2. 1976: The prize-winning Lawless prophecy
  3. 200 Words
  4. 2nd Letter from Ward 1
  5. 32 Answers
  6. 90 Minutes in New York
  7. A Brush with the Past
  8. A call from “Alma Mater”
  9. A Comatose Fridge, and Whatever’s Meant to Be
  10. A Coney Island of the Mind
  11. A Dummy’s prayer answered
  12. A Fig-Leaf for David
  13. A Glastonbury Romance
  14. A Graceful Retreat
  15. A Letter from Vincent
  16. A magical place
  17. A Modest School Reunion
  18. A Sort of Philosophy
  19. A stroll around the neighbourhood
  20. A Trip Back
  21. A Tumbling Profusion
  22. A Very English View
  23. A Way with Words
  24. Aboriginal Tirade
  25. About the Magdalene
  26. Abstract Thinking vs Sensuous Living
  27. Abundance
  28. Acknowledgments
  29. Adaptation
  30. Adapting
  31. Affinity
  32. After Rain
  33. A Graceful Retreat
  34. Akin
  35. All Actual Life is Encounter
  36. All Religion is Magic!
  37. All we ever need to know
  38. Alley Creatures
  39. Altering the Past
  40. Amazing Predictions
  41. A Moment
  42. Amsterdam
  43. An African Sampler
  44. An Air for Cello and Soprano
  45. An Exercise in Unknowing
  46. An Old Book Revisited
  47. An old Cockney song
  48. An Open Letter to the Person Complaining
  49. An Outsider’s Perspective
  50. Anam Ċara
  51. and a Kitchen Sink, too
  52. Angel Story
  53. Angelic Brightness
  54. Angelic Message?
  55. Angelic Omens
  56. Angels
  57. Angels and Grace
  58. Angels and Us
  59. Angels, Chaos, Truth
  60. Angels Disguised as Bandits
  61. Angst and Angels
  62. Animal
  63. Annie Dillard
  64. Ant vs Sluggard
  65. Archaeologist
  66. Art as Generosity
  67. Art is more than Life
  68. Art, not Nature
  69. As a Novice
  70. At Mrs Jenkins’
  71. At Sixteen
  72. At the Blue Note Café
  73. At the Moot Spot
  74. Attitude
  75. Attracted
  76. Bach and Blackbird
  77. Back Home from Hospital
  78. Back Home in Blighty
  79. Back in the Rain
  80. Back on the Briar Patch
  81. Back streets, oily hands
  82. Back to Slough
  83. Baggage
  84. Battery Hen
  85. Beggars and Brexiteers
  86. Being a nobody
  87. Being Ordinary
  88. Being ready
  89. Beliefs 1: Pursue your Dreams
  90. Belonging
  91. Bible-reading Martyrs
  92. Bicycle
  93. Binding a Joy
  94. Bin Laden Dies
  95. Black Books
  96. Blackberry Jam
  97. Blazing a Trail
  98. Bledlow Ridge
  99. Bless My Soul
  100. Blessed by the Sun
  101. Blessed Life
  102. Blessedness
  103. Blessings for All
  104. Blissful
  105. blog, blag, brag
  106. Blue Sea
  107. Blurbs
  108. Body Consciousness
  109. Bonfire of the Vanities
  110. Breadcrumbs . . . . . .
  111. Breakfast Rant
  112. Breaking Wild
  113. Brexit Dream 1
  114. Brexit Dream 2
  115. Brexit Dream 3
  116. Brochure Design
  117. Brother Sun, Sister Moon
  118. Brussels
  119. Burgess and Lawrence—with Time for a Tiger
  120. Bus Ride
  121. Bus Station
  122. BWV 140, a Church Cantata of J.S. Bach
  123. By Bus and Canal
  124. By their fruits
  125. Cancer, I Love You
  126. Capturing the Moment
  127. Carbon Footprint
  128. Caterpillar
  129. Cause of Insanity
  130. Champion of the Ordinary
  131. Cherishing the Past
  132. Cherry Tree
  133. Christina in a Bookshop
  134. Christmas 1944
  135. Christmas Past
  136. Civilization or Madness
  137. Classical Music of Africa
  138. Climb the lowest mountain
  139. Clothesline
  140. Clouds and simple things
  141. Community
  142. Compassion
  143. Confession
  144. Constant
  145. Cool for Cats
  146. Cool Vibrations, Good Migration
  147. Cornfields near Amersham Old Town
  148. Country Walk
  149. Cover Story
  150. Cowes Horizons
  151. Creation Myth
  152. Cretinocracy
  153. Crime and Punishment
  154. Dark Star
  155. David’s Fig-Leaf
  156. Dawn Song
  157. Dawn Today
  158. Death before Dishonour
  159. Death Row
  160. Death will Win
  161. Delicious, not Precious
  162. Depth
  163. Digging in the Woods
  164. Dignity
  165. Diogenes and Alexander
  166. Discussion on Education
  167. Distinguish what’s Real
  168. Do Fish have Souls?
  169. Do I have an Immortal Soul?
  170. Don’t try this at Home
  171. Dr Johnson and Blockheads
  172. Dream Lesson
  173. Dreams
  174. Dress Code
  175. Driving Again
  176. Duckling traffic
  177. Ducks and Drakes
  178. Eagle Flew Out of the Night
  179. Early Childhood
  180. Easter Reverie
  181. Ecstasy and Unreason
  182. Elemental
  183. Eleventh Child
  184. Ellie Clayton on William Blake
  185. Encounter in a Landscape
  186. Encounters on the Phoenix Trail
  187. Engineering and Angels
  188. England Have My Bones
  189. England in Spring
  190. England’s Green and Pleasant Land
  191. English Literature’s First Terrorist
  192. English pancakes
  193. Enhancing the Sky
  194. Enough of Priesthoods
  195. Enthousiasmos
  196. Eros, Agape and In-Godding
  197. Escaping from a Festival
  198. Escaping one’s Enemy
  199. Eternity in the City
  200. Evangelist
  201. Everything Desires
  202. Everything Knows
  203. Evolution
  204. Existence of God
  205. Eye-Witness
  206. Face to Face
  207. Fantasies
  208. Fernando Pessoa
  209. Fevered Interlude
  210. Fields of Blood
  211. Fight Club: the Movie and Book
  212. Figures in a Landscape, updated
  213. Film Noir
  214. Finding Companionship in Reading
  215. Finding my Way in the Void
  216. Flat-bottomed Clouds
  217. Flight and Pursuit
  218. Flowers of Grass
  219. Fog on the Solent
  220. Following the scent
  221. forgiving
  222. Four-leaf Clover
  223. Fragile
  224. Free as a Bird
  225. Friendly Black Sheep
  226. From a Nest of Terrorists
  227. From a Thief
  228. From an Old Notebook
  229. From Etty, to God
  230. From Handwriting to Eternity
  231. From Jamaica
  232. From Journal to Book?
  233. From the Gone Past
  234. From the Land of Serendip
  235. Full Circle
  236. Fuller just got Emptier
  237. Gaia Warriors
  238. Generous
  239. George Santayana
  240. Gerrards Cross
  241. Gerrards Cross and the Wayfarer
  242. Getting Spruced Up
  243. Getting Things Done
  244. Ghetu Files a New Story
  245. Girl with a Pearl Earring
  246. Gladness
  247. Glimpsing Eternity
  248. God and the Laws of Physics
  249. God is an Anarchist
  250. God is silent: Angels are here
  251. God, Love, Marriage, Sex
  252. Good and Bad
  253. Good Vibrations
  254. Grace and dignity
  255. Graffiti
  256. Grasping the Sky
  257. Gravity and Grace, by Simone Weil
  258. Greater than the Sum of its Parts
  259. Greenhayes Across the Years
  260. Guided Randomness
  261. Hannah Arendt on Action
  262. Happenstance
  263. Happiness Machine
  264. Hasty Sketch Map
  265. He was a very Parfit Gentil Knight
  266. Head and body
  267. Healing
  268. Heaven-Haven
  269. Hell! said the Duchess
  270. Here I am
  271. Here I’ll stay
  272. Here in October
  273. High Wycombe has a Monopoly
  274. Hildegard of Bingen
  275. Hilltop Reverie
  276. Hitching to Heaven
  277. Hole in the Head
  278. Holiday Job
  279. Holy Family
  280. Home journal
  281. Homer’s Odyssey
  282. Hope
  283. Hornet’s Nest
  284. Housewifery
  285. How Everything Fits Together
  286. How Religions Began…
  287. How to Quell Terrorists
  288. How we got here, where we go next
  289. Human Animal
  290. humble
  291. Hurried Post
  292. Hymn of the Cherubim
  293. I am an Animal
  294. I am not a Machine
  295. I Leap Over the Wall
  296. if a white feather falls in front of you…
  297. If I burn to death, they’ll be sorry
  298. If I had stayed in Cowes
  299. Image and Ecstasy
  300. Improvisation
  301. In a Dark and Secret Wood
  302. In Memoriam for a lost friend
  303. In Memory of George Whitman, 1913-2011
  304. in praise of Inchoate Reality
  305. In the Bleak Midwinter
  306. In the Days of Low Sun
  307. In the Industrial Valley
  308. In the Mirror
  309. In the thistle-field, at dawn
  310. Indoor Travel
  311. Infinite are the Depths
  312. Inner and Outer Landscape
  313. Inside Out
  314. Intelligent Design
  315. Intimations of Immortality
  316. Intrepid Victorians
  317. Intrepid Victorians (2)
  318. Intrinsic Goodness
  319. Invisibles
  320. Invitation to a close encounter
  321. Is it Just Evolution?
  322. Is Soul poured into Flesh?
  323. It
  324. Jamaica, April 2018
  325. Jamaican Album
  326. James Lovelock: transcript of radio interview
  327. John o’Saturn Meets Women from Earth
  328. Jordan Peterson and Susan Blackmore
  329. Jotted Psalm
  330. Joy without a Cause
  331. Joyful Expressions?
  332. Jua Kali
  333. Just Like That
  334. Just Pix
  335. Kant’s Trick
  336. Keeper of Souls
  337. Kindness, Audio Podcast
  338. King James I School
  339. Knocking on Heaven’s Door
  340. Knowledge of Angels
  341. La Vie en Rosé
  342. Lambs and Us
  343. Last Temptation
  344. Latin Class
  345. Learning How to Live
  346. Leaving Maxiram
  347. Leaving Space on the Stage
  348. Lehman Brothers Bites the Dust
  349. Let Spring be my Muse
  350. Letters to the Universe
  351. Liberation
  352. Life and Art
  353. Life’s Predicament
  354. Life Story Part 1 
  355. Life Story Part 2
  356. Life-Illusion
  357. Like a Letter … (2)
  358. Like a letter with my address on it
  359. Like an Artist’s Brush
  360. Like Slingblade
  361. Like Water
  362. Like Wildfire
  363. Liking and Disliking
  364. Lion and Thorn
  365. Lisbon
  366. Literature’s Miraculous God-child
  367. Litter
  368. Live by the Pen, Die by the Pen
  369. Living an Ordinary Life
  370. Living in a Body
  371. Living in High Wycombe
  372. Loitering
  373. Love Affairs
  374. Love to All
  375. Lucid Waking
  376. Luck & Angelic Messengers
  377. Lust for Life
  378. Magic of Day and Night
  379. Man Creates God
  380. Managing my Time on Earth
  381. Manhattan Odyssey
  382. Maslow’s Pyramid
  383. Maxiram Revisited
  384. Me and the Kenyan Mau-Mau
  385. Me and the Little Rock Nine
  386. Meeting Myself
  387. Memorable Achievements?
  388. Memories, Dreams, Reflections
  389. Memory’s Carillon
  390. Merry Christmas, Messrs Deming
  391. Metaphors
  392. Mill Park
  393. Miraculous Recovery
  394. Mission
  395. Mission to Babylon
  396. Mister God, this is Anna
  397. Modest Ambitions
  398. More Jamaica
  399. Mother’s Day Visit
  400. Mr Lehane is Back
  401. Mr Sudell
  402. Museums and Women
  403. My Best Film – Ever
  404. My diary
  405. My Dream Project
  406. My Life as Art
  407. My true self
  408. Natural
  409. Neon or Candle-Light
  410. New Age Beliefs?
  411. New Day-School
  412. New Morning
  413. News of the fight soon reached the Queen
  414. Night Thoughts
  415. Nightmare
  416. No Man is an Island
  417. Norfolk House 1
  418. Not Doing and Not Writing
  419. Notes on the Design of Form, part 1
  420. Not for Bread Alone
  421. Not Knowing
  422. Not Knowing feels like a good place to be
  423. Not trying too hard
  424. Old Photos
  425. On a Dark and Stormy Night
  426. On Being an Animal
  427. On Christmas Eve
  428. On Coombe Hill
  429. On Fresh Air Alone
  430. On Further Consideration
  431. On Happiness
  432. On Having No Ambition
  433. On Human Behaviour
  434. On Reading the Bible
  435. One Minute, Please!
  436. One Piece of Baggage
  437. One thought fills Immensity
  438. One’s Own Backyard
  439. Only the bicycle shed still stands
  440. Original version of diary software
  441. Other Places, Other Times
  442. Our Own Nest
  443. Our planned trip to Brussels
  444. Outreaching
  445. Outsider
  446. Owen Glendower
  447. Pandora’s Box
  448. Panspermia
  449. Parallel Paths
  450. Park Benches
  451. Passion and Society
  452. Pastures New
  453. Pedestrian Ideas
  454. Peg, a minor character
  455. Perpetual Lab
  456. Perspectives and Remembrance
  457. Pheasant
  458. Piklu and the Old Man
  459. Pilgrimage to Cowes
  460. Pilgrimage to St Cuthbert’s
  461. Portrait of her Grandfather
  462. Portrait of Two Kings
  463. Possessed by a God
  464. Powys and the Dead Frog
  465. Preferring the Old Telephones
  466. Pregnant Thoughts
  467. Preoccupied and Dreamy
  468. Presence: the Numinous in Everyday Life
  469. Privacy, Fearlessness
  470. Problem Solved
  471. Profane Influence
  472. Proof of Angels
  473. Prophetic Words from 1976
  474. Punishment or Happiness?
  475. Purpose
  476. Pygmalion and Galatea
  477. Quality Management Under the Sea
  478. Rainy day window
  479. Rambling in a Landscape
  480. Reader-Friendly
  481. Reading as a Mirror
  482. Reading the Church Times
  483. Reason to celebrate
  484. Rebuilding from within
  485. Recycling via the Salvation Army
  486. Released from Hospital
  487. Religion on Public Life
  488. Religion: Conquest of Fear?
  489. Remembrance
  490. Remembrance Sunday
  491. Responsibility
  492. Resuming Normality
  493. Retracing
  494. Reunion
  495. Revelations
  496. Revisit
  497. Ripening
  498. Risk Assessment
  499. Ritual & Reason
  500. Robert Louis Stevenson on Gas Lamps
  501. Root and Flower
  502. Rooted here
  503. Round and Round the Pampas Grass
  504. Rumours & Resignations
  505. Running with Bulls
  506. Sacred places
  507. Sacrifice and Conscience
  508. Sail away
  509. Scintillating Scotoma
  510. Scraps for a Future History of Now
  511. Secret Strength
  512. Seeing a Pattern
  513. Seeing from a Height
  514. Self-Doubt
  515. Self-proclaiming
  516. Sent to Boarding School
  517. Seven Stylish Things
  518. Sex Therapy
  519. Sex Therapy book
  520. Ship of Dreams
  521. Simone Weil on Evil
  522. Simone Weil on Politics and Justice
  523. Sin and the Church Times
  524. Sisyphus and the Rolling Stone pt 1
  525. Sisyphus 2
  526. Sisyphus 3
  527. Sisyphus  4
  528. Sittism or mainly Whateverism
  529. Sleeper Class
  530. Slug Life
  531. Smarts
  532. Some Dreams
  533. Some Rare Photos
  534. Something Meaningful
  535. Something of the Night
  536. Soul of an Animal
  537. Southward
  538. Spaces
  539. Spirit
  540. Spreading the Word
  541. Spring, or the Talk that Never Was
  542. Springtime
  543. Stairway to Heaven
  544. Steppenwolf
  545. Stepping Aside
  546. Stepping on Air
  547. Stepping Out
  548. Stories of Animal Sagacity
  549. Stories of Feline Sagacity
  550. Storms
  551. Strange Angels
  552. Straw Dogs
  553. Suffusion of Yellow
  554. Sunday Morning Stroll
  555. Sunday Morning, Late February
  556. Sunlit Ecstasy
  557. Take Nothing for Granted
  558. Taking the Bull by the Horns
  559. Talking the Walk
  560. Tall Stories
  561. Testament
  562. The Abyss
  563. The Angelic Gift
  564. The Anointing of Saul
  565. The Art of the Possible
  566. Theatre of life
  567. the beggar gives without my asking
  568. The Bible as a Sacred Object
  569. The Bitter Taste
  570. The Book of Margery Kempe
  571. The Boy Samuel
  572. The Buddha and the Corpse
  573. The Burden of Gold
  574. The Butterfly Phase
  575. The Call of Nature
  576. The Centaur
  577. The Charabanc of Trippers
  578. The Chilterns
  579. The Coffee House: a Brief History
  580. The Constant Spring
  581. The Cosmic Ordering Service
  582. The Covenant
  583. The Creative Mind
  584. The Deck of Cards
  585. The Denial of Death
  586. The Exchange of Gifts
  587. The Faculty of Wonder
  588. The Folly of a Clown
  589. The Free Soul
  590. The Garden of Remembrance
  591. The Gentle Art of Wayfaring
  592. The Gift Horse
  593. The Gift of Literacy
  594. The Girl who Rocked the Government
  595. The God Interviews
  596. The Golden Ball
  597. The Gordian Knot
  598. the Grand Scheme of Things
  599. The Handyman, by Brian Spaeth
  600. The Happy Ending
  601. The Headmaster’s Wife
  602. The Head’s Sermon
  603. The Holy Ghost
  604. The Howrah Bridge Palmist
  605. The Human Condition
  606. The Idea of Perfection
  607. The Interconnectedness of All Things
  608. The Joker Chuang-Tzu
  609. The Late V S Naipaul
  610. The Legend of Honey
  611. The Long Journey to Now
  612. The Lord is my Shepherd
  613. the Lure of Literature
  614. The Madman’s Idea
  615. The Magic Fence
  616. The Mindless Maid
  617. The Modern Encyclopaedia for Children
  618. The Moment
  619. The Moment, and The Rainbow
  620. The Muse is a Jealous Mistress
  621. The Mysterious Impulse
  622. The Nature of the I
  623. The New Pub
  624. Then and Now
  625. The old Telephones
  626. The Old Testament
  627. The Opium of the People
  628. The Organizing Power of words
  629. The Origins of Speech, according to Wittgenstein
  630. The Past Rewrites Itself
  631. The Pen is Mightier than the Sword
  632. The Persistence of Selfhood
  633. The Phoenix Trail
  634. The Placebo Effect
  635. The Pocket Diarist
  636. The Poetic
  637. The Pope and the Koran
  638. The Practice of Compassion
  639. The Present Moment
  640. The Price of Civilisation
  641. The Princess Flying Boat
  642. The Printing-Factory
  643. The Pull of Heredity
  644. The Realm of Infinite Possibility
  645. The Rules of the Tribes<
  646. The Sacred
  647. The Search for Meaning
  648. The Secret Agent
  649. The Secret Life of Strangers
  650. The Senses
  651. The Sex Life of Thomas Traherne
  652. The Slug, my Ancestor
  653. The Snowdrop Garden
  654. The Soloist: Art is More than Life
  655. The Soul just Feels
  656. The Springtime of Youth
  657. The Steps
  658. The Story of Tools
  659. The Sun-Dial Factory
  660. The Tree of Life
  661. The Unfairness started with Adam and Eve
  662. The Unnamed Road
  663. The Ventilator Cowl
  664. The View from Nowhere
  665. The Visionary Eye
  666. The Wings of Fate
  667. The word Spiritual
  668. The Worm in the Apple
  669. The World
  670. The Wretched
  671. The Yet-to-be invented e-Writer
  672. Theatre of Life
  673. Then and Now
  674. Theology of the Body
  675. They that go down to the sea in ships
  676. Thirteen
  677. This Blessed Plot
  678. Thomas Traherne: His Outlook on Life
  679. Ticket to Paradise
  680. Time Consumes: Art Distils
  681. To Hayden, on Pets
  682. To Him that Knocketh
  683. To My Literary Agent
  684. To Paul, from Vincent
  685. To the Reader
  686. Tooting Broadway Dude
  687. Touched by the Printed Word
  688. Train Scribbler
  689. Travelling Light
  690. Travelling on Foot
  691. True Pride
  692. Tsundoku
  693. Two Vincents
  694. Unblocking
  695. Uncertainty
  696. Under the Umbrella Tree
  697. Unfair to Rats
  698. Unfettered
  699. Unimaginable
  700. University Dreams
  701. Unjudging
  702. Until the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse land at Heathrow
  703. Unto the Hills
  704. Upright Working Prince, pure lad
  705. Up through the floorboards
  706. User-Friendly
  707. Valley Creatures
  708. Valley Reverie
  709. Van Loon’s Lives, and Other Stories
  710. View from the Hill
  711. Views from Our House
  712. Vincent in Auvers
  713. Virtual Gardens
  714. Visit to Dalkey in 2014
  715. Waiting
  716. Wake Up!
  717. Walking Alone
  718. Walking on Air
  719. Walking, Thinking. Thanking
  720. Want and Need
  721. Wasp Honey
  722. Watercress and Angels]
  723. Wayfaring 2006 – 2018
  724. Wayfaring Again
  725. We Create Worlds
  726. Wet Day
  727. What Books…?
  728. What Causes War?
  729. What Grandma Told Me…
  730. what is God?
  731. What is life?
  732. What is Philosophy?
  733. What is Soul?
  734. What is the greatest invention of all time?
  735. What looks after us?
  736. What makes me Uneasy
  737. What Makes us Stronger
  738. What the Alpine Club Had to Say
  739. What to Do
  740. When I Gave Trump a Chance
  741. When Love Conquers Fear
  742. When Memory Strikes
  743. When the Past Haunts the Night
  744. Where Norfolk House Stood
  745. Whereof one cannot speak
  746. While I Can … Because I Can
  747. While Unsleeping
  748. White and Black…
  749. Whithersoever
  750. Who is my Neighbour?
  751. Who Sleeps with Katz
  752. Who the …?
  753. Why Carry on Living
  754. Why did the R101 Crash?
  755. Why do Ladybirds have Spots?
  756. Why has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?
  757. Why Pain?
  758. Why we do what we do
  759. Why write Memoirs
  760. Will and Intellect
  761. Wise
  762. Witchcraft?
  763. With a Pinch of Salt
  764. Wittgenstein
  765. Wittgenstein on Imagination
  766. Woodland Day Trip
  767. Woodside
  768. Writing Instrument
  769. Writing it Down
  770. Writing Style
  771. X: the Unknown
  772. Yellow
  773. Young, Heroic and Lethal
  774. Your diary
  775. Zorba the Greek