Monthly Archives: April 2016

(a portion of the gym before the doors opened) (ready to go; one buyer wanted to buy my shirt!) (another view: ready to go) Every year I travel to the nice Lion’s Centre on 11th Avenue to join my record-collecting … Continue reading →

“Most people would rather die than think and many of them do.” –Bertrand Russell,

“After all, you can’t wear the feminist T-shirt at home and traffic with misogynists abroad.” –quoted in excellent Rex Murphy column, National Post, April 16, 2015 Especially when, as Stephen Lewis put it, Saudi Arabia is “a regime steeped in … Continue reading →

Jackie Zinger, park ranger, Nahanni. Her work can be seen on the Nahanni installment on the Frame cable channel. A great love of Nature with the Poet’s Eye for spectacular presence shots.

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter–to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…And one fine morning– So we beat on, … Continue reading →

“I don’t think a poem comes from an idea. Walking is good for poetic inspiration. Something drops on your head. You get the first line, see something, and it gives you the last line: ‘Goodbye,’ said the river. ‘I’m going … Continue reading →

“Come here, child,” cried her father as she appeared. “I have sent for you on an affair of importance. I understand that Mr. Collins has made you an offer of marriage. Is it true?” Elizabeth replied that it was. “Very … Continue reading →

Across from me in the waiting room this morning, a young woman with chartreuse hair and tattoos on her arm wearing a t-shirt that proclaimed “I HATE EVERYONE” in caps. I almost got up and went over to say “But … Continue reading →

“I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of. I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how … Continue reading →

Context and Process. Every specific, moment, individual part or person can be perceived, understood, assessed, and appreciated as part of a greater whole or context. Indeed, if one wants to achieve any of these four things in any situation or … Continue reading →