Monthly Archives: October 2014

Two Google headlines–one focusing on Rene Zellweger’s cosmetic surgery (This is newsworthy?); the other on women getting this kind of surgery to please some men (This is hard news?). There are very serious problems in our society–e.g., Ebola transmission and … Continue reading →

A no-brainer. If the dangerous irrationals are not challenged and dealt with early, then there will be more violence. The notion that some idiot’s privacy exceeds public safety and security is frankly deluded and nuts. Our society has increasingly abandoned common … Continue reading →

Yesterday was a long-awaited-for, major, positive turning-point-day, healthwise, for both myself and my wife. Quite exhausting, especially after I wound down by watching Hitchcock’s classic The Lady Vanishes no less. Followed by one of those unexpected, profound deep sleeps. Elsewhere/earlier … Continue reading →

“Happiness depends on ourselves.”–Aristotle (Very much so–attitude being the key, regardless of limits and limitations including health.) “Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”–Frank Lloyd Wright (Certainly a daily reminder, natural disasters excluded. Much … Continue reading →

(Spiritus getting ready to do a book launch reading at Woodward’s Books, Southgate Shopping Centre, Edmo, fall 1989ish–Glen tallest, Dean sitting. We were shortly to be surrounded by a veritable mob of passing shoppers, some sitting on the floor. This … Continue reading →

http://strathconadental.ca/videos/ Check: Strathcona Dental Clinic Patient Testimonial! (dark purple shirt) One-take camera-shoot spontaneously ad-libbed immediately after a scaling appointment!

Lew Tabackin Trio live at the Yardbird Suite My thirst for good retro live jazz was finally slaked thoroughly within the first two numbers by the Lew Tabackin Trio, last evening at the Yardbird. Consummate international artists with large followings … Continue reading →

Below are subject-highlighted Roget words relative to positive and negative human qualities or character development. Words were grouped on obvious/majority number of sub-synonyms leaning toward positive or negative. Negative (These 87 qualities and tendencies would produce a rather flawed, negative … Continue reading →

September      (written some 30 years ago) In the fall we drift along the tree-lined streets of unfamiliar places. Leaves cover everything: sleepy cars and houses sidewalks and our coats. My son drags his foot beside the curb like a street-cleaner but even … Continue reading →

(Robert Frost family gravestone, North Bennington, Vermont, taken October, 1991) (from “October”) O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow. Make the day seem to us less brief. Hearts not averse to being beguiled, Beguile us … Continue reading →