Monthly Archives: October 2015

The Biggest Trick of All

turns out to be acceptance of: self (no. 1), others, contexts, past choices, and life’s innumerable imperfections and Nature’s beauties. This is accompanied by and made possible to a large extent by ‘letting go’ (especially of ego, fear, and distrust). … Continue reading

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Life’s Absurditities and Paradoxes…

(“Laughing Men” sculptures, Vancouver) (getting in the way of another photographer by Seasons restaurant, Queen Elizabeth Park, Vancouver) (‘reverse’ picture-window selfie on balcony at Bighorn Resort, Radium Hot Springs) (1967–my gr. 12 class, obliviously on left talking music with a … Continue reading

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A Dog in the Hand

is worth two in the bush. That and lower blood pressure. “One touch of Nature makes the whole world kin.”–Shakespeare

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Always Responding to Context

You’ve heard of people dealing with the hand life or fate has given them. Thus, it is with context and situation. One is always, always responding to the moments and episodes of a day or at certain points in life … Continue reading

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Some Famous Women I Admire/Respect

(“conferring her own crown of greatness and genius”: Joni Mitchell’s clever self-portrait based on a van Gogh painting) Ingrid Bergman Juliette Binoche Deborah Kerr Vanessa Redgrave Elizabeth Taylor Virginia Woolf Agatha Christie Jane Austen Emily Dickinson Willa Cather Alice Munro … Continue reading

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Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982)

(Olive Films/Paramount DVD with interesting interview with the original playwright who comments on the rough road to stage and then screen) This is a successful Broadway play filmed on a movie-stage by Robert Altman in one of his comebacks. The themes … Continue reading

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Re. Death, Etc.–Some Passing Thoughts

Death: Process, and Information Very much how any death goes, starting with the process of actual dying, survivors’ various reactions to this, and, picking-up-the-pieces, the start-up of estate biz. The whole dealing with a house and the things that remain … Continue reading

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First Death Memory, 9

(the childhood home, centre, some 30 years later in the 1990s–after a garage and paved driveway had been added and a caragana bush in front was removed) Grade 4. My mother’s farmer-father had come to stay with us. He was in his … Continue reading

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*But most important and basic of all in relationships is

Trust. It facilitates whatever is mutually imagined, needed, wanted, and desired. Nothing significant or consequential, no forward or positive movement happens without it. No trust=no relationship.

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Willa Cather Letter on Death

“It’s a brutal fact, Zoe, that after one is 45, it simply rains death, all about one, and after you’ve passed fifty, the storm grows fiercer. I never open the morning paper without seeing the death of someone I used … Continue reading

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