Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/11/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A nice tribute too, John. Douglas ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Beeching" <johnbeeching at gmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2014 3:52 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Ten years ago today > Dear Nathan, > > A very moving story, which made me remember my father. He joined the > Party > while still at school, joined up to fight fascism never expecting to > survive, refused to become an officer and finally left the Party after > Hungary. Nevertheless, his heart was always with the working class and > the > oppressed. After the war his life was one of a bohemian writer who lived > in more countries than most people have hot dinners. While his life may > have been unconventional and he did sacrifice others along he way, he was > always true to his beliefs. I was born in '51 and my childhood was one of > material poverty but intellectual richness. It was only later in life, > when we could spar intellectually over much wine, that I came most to > respect and understand him - in fact we could converse in a kind > shorthand, > which no one else could understand, for we knew each other's thought > processes so well. For a long time after his death I carried on having > conversations with him in my head (it felt as if I had no one else I could > really talk to) and, on the anniversary of his death I always pour two > glasses of whisky, which he was not supposed to drink towards the end, but > we always used to when I visited him in Spain, and drink to his memory. I > named my youngest son, who was born a few weeks before his death and he > never met, Jack, after him. > http://jacketmagazine.com/26/beech-l-w.html > > John > > On 1 November 2014 05:23, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > >> Today also happens to be my birthday, but I have not really felt like >> celebrating it the past ten years: >> >> http://www.frozenlight.eu/nathanfoto/far.html >> >> Cheers, >> Nathan >> >> Nathan Wajsman >> Alicante, Spain >> http://www.frozenlight.eu >> http://www.greatpix.eu >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ >> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator >> YNWA >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > John Beeching > http://johnbeeching.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >