tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post4788867934790168538..comments2023-10-31T15:39:09.651+01:00Comments on box elder: Ken HyamLucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-86273029140837001482016-03-24T22:34:57.268+01:002016-03-24T22:34:57.268+01:00Beautiful translation. Looking through his blog no...Beautiful translation. Looking through his blog now, I see a poem he posted, "Handbook for Explorers 19," in memory of his brother and written by his brother; it opens with "And yet, you must keep saying "and yet"... and that's also such a fitting poem.HKatzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17653570160517335758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-51635935216109719382016-03-17T19:12:17.432+01:002016-03-17T19:12:17.432+01:00Marly, I do seem to be writing rather too many in ...Marly, I do seem to be writing rather too many in memoriam type posts lately.<br /><br />Trish - lovely to see you here, thanks for stopping by.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-28774822874078120092016-03-17T16:53:48.256+01:002016-03-17T16:53:48.256+01:00Hi Lucy
I've just visited your blog for the f...Hi Lucy<br /><br />I've just visited your blog for the first time. What a lovely heartfelt post you wrote about Ken. You describe him with such respect and tenderness. My sympathies at the loss of another friend. <br /><br />The poem is beautiful and very visual. It makes me think of Ellena and how she would notice her surroundings. <br /><br />Looking forward to reading more of your posts. <br /><br />TrishTrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13632553702010149817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-44242603266934401322016-03-16T13:54:24.246+01:002016-03-16T13:54:24.246+01:00Sympathy, Lucy--it's so strange the way our un...Sympathy, Lucy--it's so strange the way our unmet friends pass away into the aether. I like the poem you choose as a kind of elegy--so calm and gentle, and putting feeling into the landscape in a way that suggests a childhood home. It's like a lost world--good will for everyone.marly youmanshttp://www.thepalaceat2.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-22782544002315152562016-03-13T10:13:59.922+01:002016-03-13T10:13:59.922+01:00Robbie - yes, indeed. Robbie - yes, indeed. Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-57398989354299992232016-03-13T10:13:30.713+01:002016-03-13T10:13:30.713+01:00Thanks all.
I sometimes have a little trouble ap...Thanks all. <br /><br />I sometimes have a little trouble appropriating condolences when I'm aware there are closer people to the one who has died who perhaps have more claim to them. Yet Ken was a friend, I hope, and a link to his brother too, and I wish people would just stop disappearing when I like having them there.<br /><br />This is a lovely poem, and I am happy to think he was still finding and making beautiful things more or less up to the end, but then that always leaves the sense that there should have been some more life to enjoy.<br /><br />Tristan - I'm glad you saw this, I remember you saying about lunch with Joe and 'his kid brother' and how you all had to be thrown out of the restaurant some time late in the afternoon!<br /><br />PC - yes, it reminded me of a painted plate of a kind of Mitteleuropean town scene I used to have.<br /><br />ML - yes, in fact the middle brother, Michael, died about twelve years ago, also suddenly from a heart attack. He was a very eminent judge in some quite noted cases, and there are several interesting broadsheet obituaries, like this one http://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/jul/15/guardianobituaries<br /><br />It's not very cheerful to have to think about our blogs etc surviving us, but I think it could be quite important.<br /><br />R - yes, I know. And I must find other things to post here than obituaries, it makes the heart sad. Take care.<br /><br />Susan - thanks for reading. It's true that blogspot blogs stay as they are, so that is good, I suppose it's really to make sure that dearest and dearest can actually post and leave memorials or whatever they want, and also clear off spam comments, maybe even close comments if they wish and generally caretake a bit. Other people who have died, like Joe, their blogs were locked in, as it were, there families not having access to put anything on them (Joe's gmail account was also hijacked shortly after his death and many of us were receiving spam e-mails from it, which wasn't very nice). We left notes in the comments telling anyone who stopped by what had happened and leaving tributes, and also chatted amongst ourselves there sporadically, but a notice on the blog would have been better. Other blogs I've seen of people who've died get very badly spammed, which is a bit upsetting. Perhaps it doesn't matter so very much, but I think it's something worth thinking about.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-50883662381868184612016-03-13T09:23:11.756+01:002016-03-13T09:23:11.756+01:00You had the right idea: letting Ken speak for hims...You had the right idea: letting Ken speak for himself.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-10372212034774017352016-03-13T04:37:36.532+01:002016-03-13T04:37:36.532+01:00That is indeed a wonderful translation. My condole...That is indeed a wonderful translation. My condolences as well - losing friends is difficult.<br /><br />Several bloggers I communicated over the past eight plus years have died and some have simply abandoned their blogs. Up to now what I've noticed is that Blogspot blogs remain in stasis just as they were. Sometimes family members updated them with brief memorials or funeral arrangement information but not always. The blog posts are still there to be read. It's the commercial blogs like Wordpress and Typepad that disappear when they're no longer being paid for or kept active in some way. Then it's sad to look up a favorite blog only to see the name has been appropriated by a third party and nothing else is left.<br /><br />All the best<br />susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747450215034568033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-25291933080534612152016-03-12T21:07:05.908+01:002016-03-12T21:07:05.908+01:00The older I get, the more important is a beautiful...The older I get, the more important is a beautiful poem. Ken's translation is truly good. My sincere and heartfelt condolences, sweet Lucy, on the loss of another friend. It's been a hard winter. I've been thinking of Joe and Heidi lately, and with Ellena's birthday nearing, I have had some sad days.<br /><br />Yes, let's think about avoiding having our blogs stuck like a bug in amber. Rouchswalwehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01393987883437907945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-81601656018421972862016-03-12T20:41:31.455+01:002016-03-12T20:41:31.455+01:00Yes, a beautiful poem. I had occasionally visited ...Yes, a beautiful poem. I had occasionally visited Lucas/Ken's blog, thanks to Joe. How very sad that two brothers, as well as Joe's wife, passed away so close in time, which must be hard for the families and close friends. I still miss Joe. Thank you for this and my warmest condolences to you, Lucy<br /><br />I agree that we need to have someone look after our blogs after death, at the very least to put up some kind of notice. I feel like my site, especially my work, should stay online, even if much of the older blog pages were cleared away. As I already have youngest daughter take care of some of the technical stuff as needed, I'm sure she could do it, in fact I did put the bug in her ear recently afyer Ellena's and Paula's passing. marja-leenahttp://www.marja-leena-rathje.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-21842195966277773242016-03-12T20:22:49.116+01:002016-03-12T20:22:49.116+01:00what a gorgeous poem, so very visual, like a paint...what a gorgeous poem, so very visual, like a painting!<br /><br />my condolences to you, lucy.the polish chickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09929281676865641560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-9769555800563687152016-03-12T16:49:17.836+01:002016-03-12T16:49:17.836+01:00a lovely poem, the translation MUST be a good one,...a lovely poem, the translation MUST be a good one, it seems so rich<br /><br />i met ken and joe together, twice, at an indian restaurant that joe knew near charing cross ... on those days they were very good company <br /><br />they were men who enriched the world before they had to leave ittristanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13268216095376583052noreply@blogger.com