Monthly Archives: March 2017

Possibilities Matter Process Matters Personal Choices Matter Freedom Matters Being an Individual Matters Language Matters Thinking Matters Education Matters Knowing Oneself Matters Consciousness Matters Sensibility Matters Spirit Matters/Soul Matters Music Matters Poetry Matters Love Matters Friendship Matters Family Matters Nature … Continue reading →

The Luck of the Irish, 1948 in black-and-white or tinted green (Irish sections-garish green, New York black-and-white). A beautiful Tyrone Power plays the perspicacious journalist Steven Fitzgerald, who, unknowingly encounters Horace, a leprechaun while visiting Ireland. Curious about the pookah, … Continue reading →

Benvenuto! The beautiful world-famous Butchart Gardens in May with minimal tourists, again. Best gardens in Canada. One of Canada’s seven wonders, easily. This is one of the best examples of (wo)man-made beauty and natural creativity I can think of. Built … Continue reading →

on many days, you can’t trust anyone or believe anything you hear or read anymore.

Well, these things do happen occasionally along the way. Was going to drop off my tax at the office tower adjacent to Sutton Place Hotel this morning. Pressed the first letter for the tax office name and his name came … Continue reading →

Ah, the many possibilities each day as one moves through life! We go through a lot on our little human journeys. Lindsay Anderson’s 1973 film classic, O Lucky Man!, remains a primer of what happens to many of us as … Continue reading →

Crokinole. (getting ‘skunked’ by my grandson)

who today wrote a piece on populist politics using Ralph Klein as an example. Sorry, Rex. Klein was a despot who took millions from education to finance horse-racing, which he was involved with. Beginning in the 1990s, he unilaterally gutted … Continue reading →

“Long and long has the green grass been growing, Long and long has the rain been falling, Long has the globe been rolling round.” –Walt Whitman (one of the first panorama views (looking toward Laurier Park) that I fell in … Continue reading →