Monthly Archives: March 2016

(recommended scarce Little, Brown dj book, 1994) The Beatles wrote great songs and sounded fine on their own, of course, but The Fifth Beatle facilitated their sound and best, unique work, no question. Listening to “Love Me Do” and “Please Please … Continue reading →

Been riding my bike since the beginning of March.

1. Communication and its lack thereof. How little there often really is out there. How it’s increasingly confuted by Canada’s spiralling Tower of Babel (with 300,000 more potentially Trudeau-voting non-English speakers on the way). E.g., Yesterday a completely different order … Continue reading →

the most powerful and universal drugs of mankind.” -RD

(Capt. Cook statue at Victoria harbour personifying Arnold’s quote) that he had come to understand, realize, and actualize what Matthew Arnold had said about a friend “who saw life steadily and saw it whole”. Took him that long to become … Continue reading →

All of us are culpable and morally involved, no matter how innocent we proclaim ourselves. Which is why our choices are important. There is great responsibility in choices. If slave or child labor is three links back in the chain … Continue reading →

true equality, fairness, honesty, common sense, and meritocracy, in particular, die hard deaths simultaneously. Many of the best people for whatever jobs and positions do not get the appropriate or best jobs and positions because of agenda politics. The Western world has … Continue reading →

Sure, I sang “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” in a 1967 Viet Nam war rally near Winnipeg’s Legislative grounds, and later got on the front lines of Calgary Trail waving placards to get school secretaries a higher wage on … Continue reading →

As for me, none. I’ve put whatever ‘genius’ I’ve had into my choices along the way and filling in whatever missing pieces long before “bucket-list” became a contemporary conventional catch-word. Sure, I’ll miss a lot of who and what I … Continue reading →

Reaffirming yet again that, Matthew Arnold-like, I remain, ever day, interested in the best that has been said, thought, written, and otherwise expressed by humans. That I also remain most interested in possibilities of the human/individual variety, for myself, for … Continue reading →