Monthly Archives: January 2014

(quote by W.B.Yeats, “Two Songs from a Play”) He is not a star for you to follow. He is just a man walking away down the road, the one who took the fire with him. No. He is a son … Continue reading →

“Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know; Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow.” –Percy Bysshe Shelley, “To a Skylark”–the greatest forgotten poem of English literature today (and with that much creatively expressed beauty, the last, unquoted … Continue reading →

Often the forgotten part of our lives is, simply, the sky–the ever-changing backdrop to our days on terra firma. Places and contexts may remain relatively the same or slow-changing, but the skyscapes and cloudscapes come and go with some regularity. … Continue reading →

A favorite preferred image–a spoken word record album cover which hangs on my bedroom wall. (Dylan Thomas often wrote of the inner child and childhood, especially its freedoms.) A recurring dream of flight–reachieved today. A nice overdue massage and steak dinner at Milestone’s. … Continue reading →

(from the excellent Inn at Laurel Point, Victoria harbour) highly recommended: -walking downtown–checking out the unique shops -afternoon tea at the Empress; they will make up cucumber sandwiches if you request; the tea gift shop–it ships their fabulous blue box … Continue reading →

My grandson’s day yesterday/Sunday. Nothing but solitary play with his birthday presents and Christmas ones, too, no doubt. Easy to imagine him playing with the simple keyboard instrument, checking out the various keys and sounds, or playing with the yellow … Continue reading →

“Cursed be the social lies that warp us from living truth!’–Tennyson, “Locksley Hall” The sleepers lie so deep, their gardens go unplanted. Their summer song unsung forever, the spring-words half-remembered. The rose and the smell of running water here. And … Continue reading →

We are all held together by wires and Wi-Fi. The props that hold us up can only be glimpsed in a certain slant of light. We are really coming apart all the time, even as we laugh and profess a … Continue reading →

Discovery of “The Box Game”

Now gone forever. Phil Everly, 74. The gentle soul of the famous Everly Bros. Musical legends who, in turn, inspired the English Everlys–John and Paul and the Folkie Everlys–Paul and Art. Numerous hits. A great live act I saw back … Continue reading →