Monthly Archives: September 2015

that it is morally wrong to possess another. Using others to satisfy one’s own ego is as old as Magwitch or Miss Havisham ruining Pip in Great Expectations. People are not meant to be manipulated or controlled as means to … Continue reading →

are often shallow, empty-headed, superficial, flighty, silly, slight, unintelligent, foolish, banal, fatuous, jejune, vapid, trivial, obvious, dull, literal, witless, foolish, ridiculous, scatter-brained, capricious, trite, vain, dumb, childish, immature, ignorant, and not to be taken seriously at all. If you want a … Continue reading →

  When you spend a fair bit on and spend a fair chunk of time buying, planting, and caring for flowers, you hate to see them ‘go’ early in September. And always, there is a choice. To preserve some natural … Continue reading →

(the patio terrace after 7:00–on a really warm evening, one can dine out here with added heat lamps) (the best time to see the gardens is about the 2nd or 3rd week into Sept. before the fleurs are taken out) … Continue reading →

The version of Macbeth that nearly everyone remembers is Polanski’s with the ‘gross’ severed-head ending. It certainly is the sensuous and ‘glandular’ Macbeth which revitalized this classic for a lot of readers and filmgoers. Earlier in this blog, I reviewed … Continue reading →

(Two huge labours of love: Ken Russell’s film The Devils, still photo of the great Vanessa Redgrave as the mad nun Sister Jeanne) (and Aldous Huxley’s book (which inspired the film), Harper, 1953, dust jacket) (engraving of actual Father Grandier, … Continue reading →

(notes after the first hour of the PBS Walt Disney documentary) It, like life, reveals how much is process, how one gets from A to B to C, etc. The familiar story of an American hero or any successful person … Continue reading →

(large wooden key on wall outside bedroom door) (selected aphorisms by Richard Davies, 1990 A.D.) …………………………………………………………………… “We do it to ourselves and then we do it to each other.” “He wanted to give himself up to her and she to … Continue reading →

(path, Robert Frost Farm, Derry, N.H.) “If you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see them again–if you have paid your debts, and made your will, and … Continue reading →

“The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow I have clutched.” –Thoreau