Julian Summerhayes
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Spiritual and cultural activist, lover of poetry, inveterate walker https://juliansummerhayes.wordpress.com/
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Today's poetry reading -- The Hollow Men by T.S.Eliot substack.com/profile/2773...
Julian Summerhayes (@juliansummerhayes)
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December 14, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Today's poetry reading -- The Hollow Men by T.S.Eliot substack.com/profile/2773...
“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women
― Charles Bukowski, Women
December 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women
― Charles Bukowski, Women
Here again.
December 13, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Here again.
Today's poetry share -- Emily Dickinson open.substack.com/pub/juliansu...
Emily Dickinson
I read three elegiac poems this morning from a wonderful Penguin book that I bought this year.
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December 13, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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“My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll
December 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
“My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll
Out again.
December 12, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Out again.
Part poetry, part recitation, part "Die Wise" from Stephen Jenkinson -- Dying, not dying open.substack.com/pub/juliansu...
Dying, not dying
“My daily practice is to wake and immediately bring my attention to this thought: “I am one day closer to my death.
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December 12, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Part poetry, part recitation, part "Die Wise" from Stephen Jenkinson -- Dying, not dying open.substack.com/pub/juliansu...
Have companies given up or abandoned EDI, mindfulness and well-being? It sure seems like it.
December 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Have companies given up or abandoned EDI, mindfulness and well-being? It sure seems like it.
I wonder how many law firms have thought of hiring a full-time mentor and not just for junior fee earners, but for everyone, including partners? I've been around the profession a long time and have yet to see it or even hear it discussed.
December 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
I wonder how many law firms have thought of hiring a full-time mentor and not just for junior fee earners, but for everyone, including partners? I've been around the profession a long time and have yet to see it or even hear it discussed.
The last time I was up in the big smoke. I need a trip out early in 2026 to visit a few of the old haunts. To think I first lived there in 1989. It seems such a long time ago.
December 11, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The last time I was up in the big smoke. I need a trip out early in 2026 to visit a few of the old haunts. To think I first lived there in 1989. It seems such a long time ago.
“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.” ― Hermann Hesse
December 11, 2025 at 9:04 AM
“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.” ― Hermann Hesse
Out and about.
December 11, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Out and about.
Today's poetry reading -- William Blake open.substack.com/pub/juliansu...
William Blake
A few poems — well known, I hope — from Songs of Innocence and Experience.
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December 11, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Out and about.
December 10, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Out and about.
Today's poetry reading -- Mary Oliver open.substack.com/pub/juliansu...
Mary Oliver
I read four poems today from Mary Oliver’s book, “Red Bird”.
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December 10, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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Today's poetry reading -- Matthew Arnold open.substack.com/pub/juliansu...
Matthew Arnold
I am beginning to drift into the more elegiac poems and this is an excellent poem from Matthew Arnold.
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December 9, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Today's poetry reading -- Matthew Arnold open.substack.com/pub/juliansu...
“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley
December 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley
Today's poetry reading -- Louis MacNeice open.substack.com/pub/juliansu...
Louis MacNeice
I read two poems today from a small Faber & Faber book; I particularly like the second one, called “Woods”.
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December 8, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Today's poetry reading -- Louis MacNeice open.substack.com/pub/juliansu...
“The world does not need words. It articulates itself
in sunlight, leaves, and shadows. The stones on the path
are no less real for lying uncatalogued and uncounted.
The fluent leaves speak only the dialect of pure being.”
― Dana Gioia, Interrogations at Noon: Poems
in sunlight, leaves, and shadows. The stones on the path
are no less real for lying uncatalogued and uncounted.
The fluent leaves speak only the dialect of pure being.”
― Dana Gioia, Interrogations at Noon: Poems
December 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
“The world does not need words. It articulates itself
in sunlight, leaves, and shadows. The stones on the path
are no less real for lying uncatalogued and uncounted.
The fluent leaves speak only the dialect of pure being.”
― Dana Gioia, Interrogations at Noon: Poems
in sunlight, leaves, and shadows. The stones on the path
are no less real for lying uncatalogued and uncounted.
The fluent leaves speak only the dialect of pure being.”
― Dana Gioia, Interrogations at Noon: Poems
Out and about.
December 7, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Out and about.
Today's poetry reading -- Paul Durcan open.substack.com/pub/juliansu...
Paul Durcan
I read today two poems of the Irish Poet, Paul Durcan: “Antwerp, 1984” and “Backside”.
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December 7, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Out on the saunter.
December 6, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Out on the saunter.
Today's bloggage (I'm still managing to write a daily piece alongside the poetry reading for which I'm blessed -- truly blessed). juliansummerhayes.wordpress.com/2025/12/06/a...
A new story
A city built on mud; a culture built upon profit; Free speech nipped in the bud,The minority always guilty.– Louis MacNeice, Autumn Journal (p.54) When do we stop talking about a “New S…
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December 6, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Today's bloggage (I'm still managing to write a daily piece alongside the poetry reading for which I'm blessed -- truly blessed). juliansummerhayes.wordpress.com/2025/12/06/a...
I read today Samuel Taylor Coleridge's immense and immortal poem, "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere" (this is the 1798 version from Lyrical Ballads)
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere
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December 6, 2025 at 7:03 AM
I read today Samuel Taylor Coleridge's immense and immortal poem, "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere" (this is the 1798 version from Lyrical Ballads)
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I am so in love with this new artist on loscil.bandcamp.com
loscil
loscil is Vancouver based artist Scott Morgan
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December 5, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I am so in love with this new artist on loscil.bandcamp.com