John Healey
Hyde Park
On my way to the studio sometimes I’ll spend thirty minutes walking in Hyde Park. You can’t cover it’s 350 acres in half an hour, of course, but believe me, being there for even a few minutes has a positive effect. In fact, don’t take it on faith just from me, listen to the good advice of the actress Gwyneth Paltrow, who has jogged past me in the park a few times. If exercising in the grounds that Henry V111 ‘acquired’ from the monks of Westminster helps to nourish her inner aspect ( her goop, I think she calls it ) then it will do you good, as well. Last time I moved meditatively between the 52 stainless steel pillars of the memorial honouring the victims of the 7 July 2005 London bombings. And Speakers’ Corner on any bright morning is certainly worth a visit at least once in a lifetime. It’s one of the few places you can hear that the End-Is-Nigh, before being reassured you’ve been somehow ’saved,’ before you are then assured it really is heads down for all of us, without moving a muscle.
But memorials to the dead, as well as the endless contrived arguments of the living dead don’t belong in parks. They never will. The existence of both are signs the lunatics have taken over the asylum; which is maybe the reason why the park keeper that day was wearing a white coat and had a fixed grin on his face. Nah, it’s supposed to be you just wandering in the beauty and clarity of nature – or I’m mad. You don’t, after all, fill your head with memories or repetitive contradictory thoughts when you meditate. Do you?
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John Healey 2010
morning all,
John firstly some feedback for you,I can take all that you said to me when you answered my caller comment regarding Eddie and as for my reading yesterday with you, Davies was the name of my old next door neighbours in essex!
Many thanks for the healing (made me sound fit for the scrap heap haha )maybe a walk in the park is about my limit,i’m allergic to strenuous exercise and gyms,they bring me out in a rash
so far I have managed to dodge the men in white coats and will continue to do so,:-)
nature in springtime is a wondrous sight,trees blossoming,spring bulbs taking their first tentative peek at the world,then emerging fully and lifting the spirits of all who see them,encouraging happy thoughts of things to come, that helps with my ‘goop’ what a brilliant word !
we don’t always need a visible memorial to remember the dead,close your eyes and you will see them,open your eyes and you will see and remember them in all that is around you.
I’ll forgo the walk in the park today it’s snowing again in norfolk and look what happened to me the last time!!
love and light
linda
xx