Monthly Archives: July 2016

putting non-English speakers on the front lines of computers, reception and answering desks, and online assistance. This is strictly Tower of Babel stuff goin’ down today/everyday/everywhere in Canada. Defies common sense, the basic concept of service, and is an insult or … Continue reading →

(two big thumbs up–the thoughtfulness, artfulness and pacing of this strong production is better than 90% of the crap out there on movie and tv screens today–BBC/Warner) Certainly one of his best along with Great Expectations and Bleak House. The … Continue reading →

The necessary and comforting routines. The connection to Nature. The things to be/get done. Maintaining or moving ahead on various processes and projects. Making plans for the day, week, month, year–‘setting things in motion’ Exercising/movement. Some solitude and leisure. Personal … Continue reading →

Grade 7, spring dance. I asked Jim Boyce who was wheelchair-bound if he wanted to go to the dance and, if so, I’d pick him up and take him. Fortunately, it was a nice Friday evening and I rolled Jim … Continue reading →

More or less what Arthur Miller said to a young man who was feeling depressed and unimportant at the time. Unabashedly, I will state that I’ve long been a proud and relatively happy individual and individualist. “To thine own self … Continue reading →

As reported July 9, I finished Callaghan’s The Loved and the Lost which I had a strange intuition and compulsion to re-read. Within 2 days of this, a Calgary white woman was found dead, killed by a black friend. Now … Continue reading →

Following a white van with white tape completely covering the large broken back window. Some of the tape was peeling away which gave the effect of cerements loosening from a corpse. Anyway rather Poeish moment in my morning.

Mandel or Iveson?

Money. The hard-working 7-11 family-man-immigrant clerk who got taken out this past year by a robber. He was working the late shift for money. The robber wanted quick, ‘easy’ money. The store’s management didn’t have an extra employee because it … Continue reading →

There is not a lot in our society today that supports and inspires very young people. Many kids have been left to the wolves and their own survival mechanisms. There are too many parents who have failed or ruined their … Continue reading →