Monthly Archives: July 2013

July 30

“Walls windows trees, waves coming through You be in me and I’ll be in you Together in eternity Some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me” –Bruce Cockburn, “Wondering Where the Lions Are”

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Give All

Give all, give all for love Our maximal gifts of self Hold nothing back And never question why. ……………………….. further reflections–One must dare and risk in order to authentically and fully live and love. *Acceptance and letting go are the … Continue reading

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Trajectory

(previously posted on January 21, 2013) “The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” “The goal of the journey is to discover yourself as consciousness.”–Joseph Campbell, (All Campbell quotes quoted on this blog are from Reflections on the … Continue reading

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Calvin & Hobbes Revisited

The Thrill of the Grass

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The Increasingly Unempathic World

“Being distracted reduces our empathy for others and blunts responses in the brain. So it’s possible that being distracted may also reduce our own happiness.”–Sylvia Morelli, TIME July 8-15, 2013 …………… So if kids and other e-media users want to … Continue reading

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And so

we are very fortunate to have what might be termed scarce or rare moments of being with another person, someone else. In those precious moments, connection, obviously, but moreover light, warmth, gentleness, tenderness, touch, kindness, deep empathy, trust, maximal closeness and … Continue reading

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Canada’s Greatest 20th Century Artist

Thomson, MacDonald, and Harris were the first great artists of the 20th century, but because they focused on landscapes exclusively, they lacked the range and variety of Alex Colville’s work. Colville subtly and deeply affected my consciousness and sensibility. His … Continue reading

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Something like a life

A certain casualness, a particular drift through one’s life perfected over time. The story’s flow old, imperfect and foibled. Who can say when you first learned how one meanders mistaken through daze regardless of plan? A becoming self unwinding threadlike … Continue reading

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‘Clover’ in Concert–March 1970, YMHA, Winnipeg

Find the blog author, 21. (Wayne mentioned in next poem in white.) Look Ma, no monitors! (How bands played live through the ’70s.) To activate any photos not showing automatically, click red x on any picture. Then click “Continue to … Continue reading

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Goin’ Back

(for Wayne and the way it was) Remembering who or what I was slowly, in pieces returning, the way I felt without ever knowing where I was really going. In a dark grove somewhere, the smell of evergreen all around and … Continue reading

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