Monthly Archives: May 2015

Hard to beat on a sunny Sunday morning, brunch at Chianti’s with no one else in the place and a seat by the east window looking out onto the pansy window-boxes. Best, simplest minestrone soup I’ve ever had. Quiet, friendly, … Continue reading →

Now estimated: 1 in 3 kids have used a smartphone by their first birthday and 12% have used them to play videogames. So much for books, print literacy, reading, Nature, and what’s left of the Real World. Dumb, la-zy parents … Continue reading →

The long horrible nightmare is over. The AB PC government which ran our province head-long into the ground for 20 years,which should have been kicked out 20 years ago, has finally imploded after decades of fear-mongering, unconscionable bullying, and insulting … Continue reading →

Making the best of “both worlds”. Reconciling flesh and blood with consciousness: integration process. Spiritual found in Sensuous Process. Finding Eternity within Time (Blake). The Essence of the Art of Life. Finding the Absolute in the Relative, Spiritual within Sense … Continue reading →

$2 billion US per year worth for the UK economy, to be exact, according to a retail expert. Before she turns 10, she will be worth 1.5 billion buckaroos. Poor unsuspecting Charlotte Elizabeth Diana. She’s nothing but personified mammon and … Continue reading →

“I had not thought death had undone so many.” –T.S. Eliot, “The Burial of the Dead”, The Waste Land (originally in Dante’s The Divine Comedy: Inferno)

yesterday was World Naked Gardening Day. Crazier and crazier…

For me, another day, another disaster somewhere in the world. My funds are limited (“like everyone’s”), but rather than just talk about “how awful” each disaster is while living a self-absorbed, limited/limiting screenlife, I always make a donation to the Red Cross … Continue reading →

Quite simply one votes for guys in suits who insult and talk down to you and refuse to change their ways of governing. Guys who are not interested in humane caring for people whether it be in education or health … Continue reading →

We all know how the new math AB Ed introduced has screwed up kids’ understanding and application of any kind of credible math skills and how slick technology has replaced critical thinking, books, and The Word. But while Albertans have been ‘sleeping’, … Continue reading →