Monthly Archives: October 2014

  Glenn Gould (died at 50 in1982–32 years ago this past week). The Master Expressionist of Bach. A Veritable Piano Genius. Well, a must-have for any serious Gould or Bach fan is (top-left photo) Glenn Gould: A State of Wonder–The Complete … Continue reading →

(Wind chill -38) Winter City? Frozen North? (fact) Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” or Sam McGee incarnate. Too bloody cold for rats. Snow blown across Xmas potholes. Someone else’s bad dream rammed down a senior’s throat like feckless mayors, … Continue reading →

to feed the chickadees at Laurier Park on a warm fall afternoon. This one, a whir of wings about to land.

top: Thoreau’s cabin (facsimile) at Walden Pond, Mass. below: Emily Dickinson’s grave, Amherst, Mass. ………………………………………………… Boston: Lenox Hotel, harbour cruise, Bull & Finch (Cheers) pub, Quincy Market, Boston Common. Fenneuil Hall, Old Burying Ground Salem, Mass.: House of the 7 … Continue reading →

Scientists have recently found interesting information when they revived hospital patients who were officially/clinically. As some have long suspected (myself included), patients retain consciousness on their ‘way out’, and later recounted what was said or done in their rooms even … Continue reading →

Worst and saddest of all is not the limits and limitations that others impose on us, but those we freely choose ourselves, limiting the innumerable possibilities, limiting ourselves and our potential, limiting the experience and joy of true freedom. The … Continue reading →

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.–Anonymous T.E. Lawrence said that the dangerous dreamers were the ones who tried to make their dreams a possibility during the day.

where we are going until we get there. Then, indeed, we shall know the place as if for the first time.

reference to state of dying or death

“To remain ignorant of what happened before you were born is to remain always a child.”–Cicero “The unexamined life is not worth living.”–Socrates