Monthly Archives: November 2017

(the Play part; at Craigellachie, B.C.–scene of the driving of the Last Spike and climax of the building of the CPR; trains have long figured as part of my past and my Dad once worked for CPR and had a … Continue reading →

(Harry Rasky’s book about the long withheld 1981 documentary on Cohen) A most unusual process. In previous sleeps, I have met Dylan, Lightfoot, on and on…Last night Leonard Cohen and Sinclair Ross–separate meetings, visits. Cohen was 45, looking much as … Continue reading →

My father, Delmar (Del) Vernon Davies (1926-1998), in Royal Canadian Navy (Sept. 9, 1943 to Apr. 23, 1946 and–in its Reserve–Sept. 13, 1960 to Sept. 12, 1965). He also served in the Royal Canadian Air Force from Mar. 29, 1951 … Continue reading →

Peanut. Female, part Bichon, part Shizu. A love sponge if ever there was one.

”Who are you?” said the Caterpillar.’–Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland First posed in 1865, this question has been the central preoccupation of twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers and poets–the central question of personal identity. When we write, it goes without … Continue reading →

The best of human beings in daily life remains live in-person presence coupled with the sharing and mutual exchange of the gifts of self. When these are, maximally, the best gifts of self, then there is nothing greater, finer, or … Continue reading →

“And this gray spirit yearning in desire/To follow knowledge like a sinking star,/Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.”–Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses” ……………………………………………………………….. Very much the possibilities in context, process, and choices at all times. Very much who considers, contemplates, … Continue reading →

it is the dream or illusion that is most beautiful and true, particularly in its conscious/ly realized forms. In literature, in music, in art, in architecture, in film, in Nature, and Love. As Thomas Wolfe said, “For if a man … Continue reading →

could care less about the de-icer being poured onto sidewalks. They lacked the imagination to see the problems that will arise when pets’ paws walk thru it, or when kids fall on it, or when people get the damn corrosive … Continue reading →

didn’t get out of the way of a truck backing into it. That about says it all about driverless vehicles.