Monthly Archives: February 2016

(Books, reading, solitude, nonconformity, and ‘dropping out from the herd’–all highlighted in Bradbury’s famous book and Truffaut’s appealing movie–are all good, valid alternatives) …………………………………………. …is mere babble often with no significant meaning or content. (This effect is often accentuated by such … Continue reading →

(above: Lake Louise. Sometimes only photography offers the closest means and technology to ‘capture’ and express whatever Nature is experienced in person) There are places and scenes which one cannot hope to do justice to in words. I know well the … Continue reading →

(Union Station–built 1912,one of the few grand buildings left standing in Wpg.) Like a pot of dry geraniums in a North-End wartime window, you cling to life though your halcyon days are done. Oh Winnipeg, your history is dead now. … Continue reading →

whatever dreams, ideals, hard work, order, civilized past, personal choices, best intentions, and various other controls, much of life, society today, and human behavior is basically and recurringly random, arbitrary, ironic, ambiguous, crazy, irrational, and plain absurd. This fact explains … Continue reading →

“Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket to the moon.”–Merle Shain, Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others “I touch the future. I teach.”–Christa McAuliffe, Aug. 1985 speech “I have everything I need, … Continue reading →

(view of downtown from west of McNally where I taught from 1875-1983; Dawson bridge on far right) (the first vista I saw when I first came to Edmo in spring, 1968: looking toward Laurier Park) (looking west to downtown then; … Continue reading →

The model for this blog, as previously mentioned, was Michel de Montaigne (1433-1592), author of  Essays. I think what he says by way of intro to and purpose for his great work would also suffice for this blog: You have … Continue reading →

(Melancholy ‘genius’ at 17, gr. 12 English class–a lad lost in a first exposure to Hamlet)

As powerful as the desire and drive for peace and civilized experiences are those for The Wild in its many shapes and forms, ranging from gardening to free, intense living and uninhibited natural behaviors. For many urban dwellers, this desire … Continue reading →