Monthly Archives: October 2016

at Butchart Gardens, Victoria. Hard to fully live without regular doses of natural beauty. ……………………………………………. Quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright: “I attend the greatest of all churches. I put a capital N on Nature and call it my church.” “I … Continue reading →

RD with Wendy Jervis, a gr. 12 student with a good voice; she sang backups I would work mostly with teachers from 1975 to 2002, but this was a rare concert featuring nothing but Dylan songs, played with student musicians.

was Richard Goldstein’s 1969 anthology, the first ever done of 1950-1960s rop/rock song lyrics. Table of Contents above. Many inspired choices including: “In My Life”–Beatles “Elusive Butterfly”–Bob Lind “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands”–Bob Dylan “Suzanne”–Leonard Cohen “Desolation Row”–Bob Dylan “Dress … Continue reading →

Legendary, iconic Bob Dylan’s winning the Nobel Prize. So well-deserved. Nice timing. My personal musical hero of the ’60s. In my first year of teaching senior high English (1972-73), I created an option course on The Poetry of Folk. Dylan’s … Continue reading →

“Freedom is from within.” –Frank Lloyd Wright “I have to protect myself from the toxicity of this culture.” –Kate Braverman “Everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities.” –Viktor Frankl “I dwell in possibility.” –Emily Dickinson “Language is the … Continue reading →

I find it truly amazing that people can occasionally be civil or empathetic, put aside differences, not be always complaining, remain in touch over long periods of time, laugh at, appreciate or value the same things, actually sympathize, and develop … Continue reading →

Just in time for Halloween: no coincidence. The Clown madness, violence, and chaos vs. little kids planning to dress up in cutesy costumes. No doubt that kids and innocence continue to be the last endangereds as North America and the … Continue reading →

–Morley Callaghan, Such Is My Beloved, 1934

in our society today. The destruction of anything resembling authority, stability, and permanence. Reducing the external world to the world I want, which won’t upset me (trigger warnings), which conforms to whatever flag I wish to invent or wave. The … Continue reading →

Cheapest buses available. Only in Edmonton. 2 pedestrians mowed down so far because the blind-spots can hold 19 pedestrians. Economics and the limitations of technology vs. human lives. Same old.