Monthly Archives: March 2016

Cross Bills Close-up

(left/greenish-yellow: female; right/reddish: male) (These guys and the rest of their flock showed up a couple of months ago and are still regulars at the bird feeder in the backyard. Big fans of black-shell sunflower seeds.)

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The Truth of the Matter

A typical Alberta man knows far more about and is closer to his truck than to his wife.

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Two Women Who Have Informed My Life

Ellen Goodman–a fine newspaper columnist of old who wrote a piece on being alive at the age Mozart was dead already–which provided a lot of perspective re. making hay while the sun shines, and poet Jane Kenyon whose poem “Otherwise” … Continue reading

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(Definition) Imperfections:

the Experienced Real as opposed to whatever Personal Dreams and Imagined Desires

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The finer, more civilized things always begin with

  good taste and sensibility. Two features sorely lacking in today’s crass, crazy, irrational, violent world.

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Lumbye’s “Champagne Galop”

complete with champagne bottle popping sound effect and glasses of vino offered between maestro and key orchestra members. In a Western world gone dumb and dumbed-down, very clever and eminently civilized.

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Strauss’s “Perpetual Motion: A Musical Jest”

flitting along like some uninhibited butterfly until the maestro turns to the audience and says, laconically “Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera…”

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There is no better way to start Monday morning

than watching one of the recorded fabulous New Year’s concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic while sipping coffee and munching on Dad’s Classic oatmeal cookies as the sun comes gradually up on the nearby trees and houses through a large patio … Continue reading

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Time to Protect Children Further?

One set of parents lets a child die rather than provide necessary medical attention and help. Another allows a child to roam freely unsupervised in a rural area. Both children die needlessly and tragically alone. Maybe it’s time for a … Continue reading

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“Tell it all brothers and sisters

before we fall. Tell it all brothers and sisters. Tell it all.” –Alex Harvey (for Kenny Rogers and The First Edition)

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