Monthly Archives: September 2014

These two are essential for Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West fans and how these two writer-lovers planned and developed their own unique gardens.

My school textbooks (minus the accompanying teacher guides) in chronological order left to right, top to bottom: 1981: Crossroads 1: Imagining, Crossroads 2: Relating, Crossroads 3: Discovering 1984: Inside Poetry 1986: Dimensions: A Book of Essays 1987: Inside Stories I, … Continue reading →

E. M. Forster’s “Only connect” is probably the truest two-word statement ever uttered. And one can connect on many levels: between oneself and others, between one and nature, and between one and any work of art, be it film, book, … Continue reading →

The leaf that is contemplating its turn to fall.

There are animals here who have rubbed themselves raw on mornings like these recalling robinsong & lovesap before the decibels of jets. They peer thru gauze at the cool desired blue. Shaved & alarmed into daylight they weigh their lives … Continue reading →

What passes through a young mind when it meets the strange or unfamiliar? (pic: sofa throw–bench scene, behind the Banff Springs Hotel, September)

“Be natural, my children.”–last words of English novelist Charles Dickens Living authentically, especially in social situations like families and workplaces, is one of the hardest, trickiest challenges in interpersonal relationships. It always works if you are honest, simply yourself, and … Continue reading →

of life is just showing up.”–Woody Allen

therefore I become.”–Cheryl Grossman

is above all else, the gift of oneself.”–Jean Anouilh