Monthly Archives: November 2016

Christmas spirit. Wonder and joy: a no-brainer. (These kinds of traditional seasonal store services have long provided many special family memories of the best of kids’ early years. A great picture’s worth a thousand words and feelings.)

(Male elk, Jasper street)

His assuming “all” (his word) of Canada is broken up the death of tyrant-dictator Fidel Castro. Including us in his private nutso fantasy of noblesse oblige. Ah, the golden days with Dad and Fidel!

Black Friday.

Shaw’s Frame channel has totally abandoned its usual mixed, changing programming to just its fireplace scene. On Nov. 24th, over a month from Christmas! Now that’s really lazy and weak.

Am listening to his brilliant melancholy op. 131 & 135 late quartets. Beethoven wrote these (127, 130, 131, 132, 133, 135) after he had become completely deaf in 1816 and just before he died in 1827. (It was the late … Continue reading →

(cover illustration; photo by RD) New signed limited ed. book of personal poems: The Rest of It

non-stop daily sirens in the city.

on the hills and plains of Vuntut, I think of how most animals and people will herd and cluster together; ‘pig-piling’ Frank Lloyd Wright called it; something that hasn’t had much attraction for me, But other than that I like … Continue reading →

with more Brexit/Trumpish governments are in the wings. The world’s tailspin into economic and social chaos continues. Countries won’t be happy until they have totally deconstructed themselves and overthrown sensible governments while embracing extremist nationalism.