Hilary Mantel and Jane Haynes in conversation. August 29, 2009
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Copyright John Haynes 2006: Hilary at home.
This is a conversation between Hilary Mantel and Jane Haynes on: Mind, Memory, Mood and Sleep. July 2009.
Please listen here:
John Haynes’ photograph of the week: ‘Bacchante couchee’ August 28, 2009
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Quote/Word of the week August 28, 2009
Posted by janehaynes in : Becoming..., Holistic health , comments closedQUOTE OF THE WEEK: The sorrow that hath no vent in tears makes other organs weep. Sir Henry Maudsley.
WORD OF THE WEEK: Qualia: (from Quale 1675: The qualities of a thing).
These are recognizable qualitative characters of the given, which may be repeated in different experiences, and weather set off quite different vibrations.’
Quotes of the week August 20, 2009
Posted by janehaynes in : Holistic health , comments closedAn excerpt from my doctor’s e-mail when I complained to him about the side effects of a medication:
‘Dear Jane,
A very famous American Professor of Pharmacology, Prof. Oliver Wendel Holmes Sr. (1809-1894) said over a hundred years ago:
“If all medications bar seven were thrown into the sea it would do much good to the human race and we might even consider ‘throwing’ it into the Thames.”
When I expressed my appreciation it was followed up by another quotation by Mark Twain:
“Be careful of reading health books. You may die from a misprint.”
John Haynes’ photo of the week: Tiger, Tiger. August 20, 2009
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Copyright John Haynes December 2004
Becoming an expert August 19, 2009
Posted by janehaynes in : Becoming... , comments closedThe other day I realized that I could no longer turn a blind eye to the fact that the windows on the fourth storey of our house are about to fall out of their frames. Imagine, they have been in situ since 1870 when the house was built. Imagine, how many people in different emotional states have looked out onto the horizon from the windows across a street in which only the trees and
Quotes of the week August 14, 2009
Posted by janehaynes in : Becoming..., Thinking skywards , comments closedNietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra:
“What is love? What is creation? What is yearning? What is a star?” – Thus asks the last human and so have I. And I can prove it.
R.D. Laing, (spoken in a strong Glaswegian accent):
‘The World Health Organisation cuts no ice with me’.
John Haynes’ photograph of the week R.D. Laing August 14, 2009
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My book August 12, 2009
Posted by janehaynes in : Writing a book , comments closedTomorrow I’m doing my first interview for my book on what it’s like to have ‘A nervous breakdown’. I’ve got so carried away with writing my blogs that I had almost forgotten that the reason for writing a blog began with my book proposal way back in ‘Birthpangs’. Well, the book proposal is now with the agent’s favourite editors; but it’s August and
Copyright John Haynes 2008
What animal would you most like to be? August 8, 2009
Posted by janehaynes in : Atomies of love, dogs , comments closed‘My mutt Maggie because she gets to spoon my eldest daughter ‘Ripley’ every night.’ Thandie Newton, in My London, last night.
‘Come away, oh human child?/To the waters and the wild/With a faery hand in hand,/For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.’ Yeats
Alex, our son, sometime, in the eighties.
