Monthly Archives: April 2015

High school girl going by yesterday with t-shirt: Not a Morning Person in big letters.

  (best seat in the house, The Teahouse Restaurant at Ferguson Point looking onto English Bay) (view of city centre through showers from highest point in Vancouver, Seasons in the Park restaurant, Queen Elizabeth Park)   (window table, Seasons) (plaque … Continue reading →

(mythical beast by the rhododendrons, Van Dusen Gardens) (3-headed sculpture, Van Dusen) (hanging light, Hotel Vancouver, afternoon tea) (“The Departure”, sculpture, Van Dusen)

(rhododendron path) (author in rhododendron garden, Van Dusen) (peonies) (looking toward Davie St. and Starbuck’s beside English Bay)

can you stand inside a hollow tree in Stanley Park, would a group of Tai-Chiers block the top entrance to Queen Elizabeth Park, would you find a park bench plaque dedicated to a major Asian superstar who committed suicide (someone that … Continue reading →

Across from the Banana Republic near an armoured truck, Duane Eddy’s “Rebel Rouser” blaring from the corner Starbuck’s, he sat on a Robson sidewalk awaiting the Second Coming with his tattered New Testament, green porcupine exercise ball, and a selection of … Continue reading →

“Stand by Me” playing in 1961 on my 2-transistor radio as I delivered Tribunes on a hot August afternoon in Winnipeg. Segue 54 years later to the underground Denman Mall (Vancouver) looking like a geriatric facility with senior shoppers shuffling past … Continue reading →

(black-figured-rappeller on 23rd floor of Vancouver high-rise, 2nd white section from the right) Something about nonchalantly throwing a leg over the top-floor guard-rail 25 stories up creating your own story– the hero of imagined possibility; no one else about to … Continue reading →

merely by the limits of others and limited expectations they have had of/set for me.

The best stuff was what had been imagined/imaginative possibilities/what had been dreamed, and then made to happen/created/come true/ and often pleasurably shared.