Monthly Archives: May 2015

One reason why it’s good to travel to Vancouver or Victoria in April for real spring.

And thinking deeply is way too much to expect these daze. The short attention spans of kids have gotten shorter and they have no ability to sit still or be patient. If they have an e-device in their hands, they … Continue reading →

Hit the road, several days of bliss and healing at Radium Hot Springs and Bighorn Meadows Resort. (Last pic a selfie as reflected in big picture window on a balcony overlooking the golf course adjacent to resort.) (Safe Read-Only site–ignore … Continue reading →

No two days are the same in retirement. In the afternoon I was tidying up my basement office while listening to a country radio station when Jim Reeves came on singing “Stand at Your Window Some Night”, which I hadn’t … Continue reading →

4 self-driving cars have had accidents since Sept., 2014 in California. I would not want to be anywhere near the massive deadly accidents that the self-driving rigs will spawn when they are finally unleashed on the highways. No different from … Continue reading →

After dinner and croquet we sat happy, content with ourselves family and world in the grey backyard calm of twilight. The whoosh and cries came too sudden for knowing– the stillness broken by necessity and nature’s fact. The cedar shattered … Continue reading →

The tulips were first, of course–various colours against the whites, greys, and browns. Next came the first hardy dandies (dandelions–reminding me of the vacant lot across the street of my childhood home. The first time I saw that host of … Continue reading →

Kim Kardashian? ! ? Does this seem like the best role model for girls and women around the world these days? That’s as good as it gets for half the people on the planet?

with Pure Music, playing my Toca hand percussion drum, accompanying sitarist Ravi Shakar in the living room as the sun streams warmly in from the East. The music comes from without and within connecting something necessary and spiritual that only … Continue reading →

Nicely done. More realistic than Sidney Lumet’s entertaining, intriguing movie. The rocky cinematography approximating train movement. The nuanced decision of the denouement unlike the movie’s light, frothier ending. Poirot’s Catholicism and references to God (introduced in previous episodes, coming in … Continue reading →