Monthly Archives: October 2016

Margaret Atwood: [In reaction to Dylan’s win] “for what.” That is a(nother) truly jealous response if ever I heard one. She was ticked off last year that Alice Munro won and not herself. ( Al Purdy wrote a poem about her being the … Continue reading →

Earthflight; Six-part series recently shown on PBS. A massive labour of love by hundreds of bird fans. Highly recommended. Accompanied by a beautiful book by John Downer; BBC Earth/Firefly. Cover above.

“How Trump is still a thing” (National Post, October 22, 2016) Opening two sentences:  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump may finally have received the campaign miracle he needs: Madonna recently promised that, “If you vote for Hillary Clinton, I will … Continue reading →

Inner Peace: Priceless.

(example of attitude and weather: hard to be sad on a warm sunny fall afternoon at the Banff Springs Hotel patio) ………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. …that deliver a slow stream over a longer period of time are annoying, of course. Fortunately, we just … Continue reading →

3,800 movies. Virtually none before 2000. No great movies or classics. Nothing to speak of featuring film as significant art form.

I’m younger than that now.” –Bob Dylan (Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature), “My Back Pages” Clover does three-part harmony on Dylan song, Winter, 1970, YMHA, Winnipeg; with Calgary friend and oldest musical buddy Wayne Fraser on left; right singer: … Continue reading →

are 24/7 distracted and hardly conscious of physical reality, family, and Nature.”–RD

Everyone needs to express their feeling and thought at a basic level. Beyond that, their love, their insights, and learned life wisdom.

(After a great long career and life, the grave of Robert Frost in Bennington, Mass. which I visited twice in the fall in the ’90s.)