Monthly Archives: September 2017

reflecting many contexts and different worlds that we choose to live in as individuals. (the world of friends: picture fromwhen I was main speaker at my elementary school’s 100th anniversary; with my oldest friend Hugh–we met in gr. 1 and lived … Continue reading →

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)–the top Beat poet (Howl) and a close personal friend of both Jack Kerouac and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. I first got to know his work through a book TV Baby Poems and a rare LP (Ginsbergs at ICA). He was … Continue reading →

The principal theme of Shakespeare’s comedies and tragedies. Watching a movie with the grandkids. You’d think it was an intense suspense-thriller. But in actuality, it’s a Thomas & His Friends video! Engaging viewing for 5 and 2 certainly and maybe somewhat … Continue reading →

(click picture for larger image: image of two boys taken from a Robert Bateman painting, bought at Robert Bateman Museum on Victoria’s waterfront; reminded/reminds me of my two grandsons)

are those who enjoy what they have.”–Yiddish Proverb (basking in the Saturday fall sun reading the Saturday T.O. papers in Radium at Bighorn Meadows Resort; hot springs to follow)

Pig-piling, herding, and conformity are de rigeur.

(from “First Snow”–Alex Colville) “You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.” –Henry Drummond “See it big, … Continue reading →

(the oldest and most expensive, from 1972, a Gibson walnut 6 string-electric; I used it in my public band days from 1973-2002) (a 12 string Yamaha acoustic–duplicates the Stones’ “As Tears Go By” and “Angie” sound) (a 2002 6 string Tofino from … Continue reading →

but it produced some memorable sunrises.