Monthly Archives: September 2017

shows off his sticker art piece for Daddy and builds a Tinker Toy café for his two animal pals.

The dead fly on the bathroom floor by the vent. Where had he come from? And I remembered, this morning, turning on the heat for the first time this fall. Performing an inadvertent exit from the bowels of house inferno? … Continue reading →

And so I awoke at long last in a Bill Evans’ world. Summer had come and gone: smoke, wind, crows and magpies. It was a more human space with leaves on the move. Overnight it had rained and I had … Continue reading →

Top half played on acoustic 6; bottom half on acoustic 12. “Islands in the Mind” is an original instrumental. I made one substitution, pulling  “Groovy Kind of Love”. Rest went over well. My first public gig since the Strathcona grad … Continue reading →

(Castile, Spain) In the musty cloister corridors of Santo Domingo are the voices of the ages unexpectedly. Men without women. Men without guns. Men assured of purpose sublime. Re-gardless of time, untouched by war, chaos and the mad pursuit of … Continue reading →

(photo by my daughter, reminiscent of van Gogh’s “Starry Night over the Rhine”, 1888)

(photos by my daughter on her trip of a lifetime to see the total eclipse with her companion; I have been ‘blamed’ for showing them a leaflet for a lecture by their old prof, Professor Hube, which I picked up at the … Continue reading →

We walk in the mist: smudges of humanity on cold blue sand. Grey sky and water squeeze distant ships to thin black marks along a vanishing point. Ahead the monolith breaks surface– like a whale stitched with angry gulls. Whitecaps … Continue reading →

pays 42.5% of income in taxes.

I have long had a unique, unconventional style and life-path. I have spent much of my life immersed in various multitudinous dreams of my own and others. For me, dreams have helped me to transcend the herding, pig-piling, and limited … Continue reading →