Across the fields of yesterday
He sometimes comes to me,
A little lad just back from play –
The lad I used to be.
Thomas S Jones, Jr.
John Lentell (Happy Birthday, Dickon)
Rhodesia Herald
19th May, 1971
(Photo: Dickon Lentell)
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Monday’s Piece
Human beings, by and large, are not very inventive and are therefore highly imitative. Their compulsion to imitate is the basis of Fashion and in affluent societies, Fashion becomes almost totally preoccupied with the essentially useless.
(Wolf Mankowitz, 1924 – 1998)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
18th May, 1971
Sunday’s Piece
There was a young fellow of Clyde
Who went to a funeral and cried;
When they asked who was dead,
He stammered and said,
“I don’t know – I just came for the ride.”
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
17th May, 1971
Saturday’s Piece
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
(Emily Dickinson, 1830 – 1886)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
16th May, 1971
Friday’s Piece
Nobody ever fergits where he buried a hatchet.
(Kin Hubbard, 1868 – 1930)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
15th May, 1971
Wednesday’s Piece
Faith is the patient seamstress
who mends our torn belief,
who sews the hem of childhood trust
and clips the thread of grief.
(Joan Walsh Anglund, 1926 – )
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
14th May, 1971
Tuesday’s Piece
Following the birth of his third son, Leonard Lyons, columnist mused: “Before I got married I had three theories about bringing up kids. now I have three kids and no theories.”
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
12th May, 1971
(Photo: JL’s first three sons)
Monday’s Piece
Greatness is not mortal. The qualities which the great have to give, they give perpetually. Their gifts are taken into the pattern of life, and they appear thereafter in the fabric of the lives of nations, renewing themselves as the leaves of the trees are renewed by the seasons.
(Robert Trout, in a radio tribute to Franklin D Roosevelt)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
12th May, 1971
Sunday’s Piece
Don’t be afraid of opposition. Remember a kite rises against, not with, the wind.
(Hamilton Mabie, 1846 – 1916)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
11th May, 1971
(Photo: Jon Paul Davis & Devonte)
Saturday’s Piece
A man said to the universe:
“Sir, I exist!”
“However,” replied the universe,
“The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation.”
(Stephen Crane, 1871 – 1900)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
10th May, 1971
(Fields by Carmina Lentell, 2001)
Friday’s Piece
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
(O.W. Holmes, 1809 – 1894)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
9th April, 1971
Thursday’s Piece
Better never trouble Trouble
Until Trouble troubles you,
For you only make your own trouble
Double-trouble when you do.
(David Keppel)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
8th May, 1971
Tuesday’s Piece
There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.
(William Langland, 1332 – 1386)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
7th May, 1971
Monday’s Piece
We wanted Li Wong
But we winged Wille Wong
A sad but excusable
Slip of the Tong
(Keith Preston)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
6th May, 1971
(Photo: Carmina Lentell)
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