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A Caution to Everybody

Dazzling & bright eye m just visiting yr loco galaxy a whimsical bit of cosmic mass from `somewhere else.` Entering yr atmosphere eye plunge comet-like thru clouds of destiny sidereal satellite of the last 1/4 my magnitude unlimited. Don`t look … Continue reading

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Eclipse (poem version)

The last thing I expected with the last major daytime eclipse was to write a poem, or rather have a love poem write itself in metaphors of the eclipse. The Oregon allusion was to my daughter’s trip of a lifetime … Continue reading

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Eclipse prose poem (from last total eclipse)

You were such a long time coming, but better late than never. A moonshadow that quieted birds and chilled the air. Startled I was at the hole above that opened in the clouds. Your dark magic enveloped me and released … Continue reading

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Remembering “Bud”:

what Marlon Brando’s closest friends called him.

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Ingmar Bergman: The Last Great 20th Century Artist?

It is in the film genre that you will find the last best of pre-Covid Art; Swedish filmmaker Bergman (1918-2007), for me, epitomizes what a great artist used to be/mean. He made over 60 important films and directed 170 plays … Continue reading

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from Carson McCullers’ “The Ballad of the Sad Cafe”

“First of all, love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved. There are the lover and … Continue reading

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Thank you Danielle and UCP

for the current power outages in the province. “The Alberta Advantage” again, right? Thank you for nickeling and dining Alberta’s power grid. We know you have more important things to do like building an arena in Calgary or building a … Continue reading

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Probably My Biggest-Ever Dilemma: Sept. 1975

My father had gone down to Sioux City, Iowa on the Labor Day long weekend and ended up on Aug, 31 (my birthday) in a head-on car collision, requiring the ‘Jaws of Life’ to pry him free.  (The car was … Continue reading

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Two Incredible Years: 1973-75 (My Double Life, Age 24-26)

(fall 1972: first teaching job) By day, I was teaching full-time senior-high English in Grand Centre, AB (now Cold Lake). Eventually, by ‘night’, 1973-1975, I was performing in two groups: Four, which became Betty Plus Four. In 22 months, we … Continue reading

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Watching Humane Society rep with kitten on tv;

took me back to when I was 7 and having lunch with our elderly neighbor in her kitchen. Her cat Biddy was hanging around the kitchen and the neighbor wanted to let me play with the cat so she cut … Continue reading

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