Monthly Archives: June 2018

in A Voice from the Attic when he was starting out as a newspaper man and author.

Includes Sonata No. 1 in B Minor, Sonata No. 2 in A, and Sonata No. 3 in E, played by Baroque violin and harpsichord (as Bach played all keyboards on)

The ugliest American crashes his way thru the summits and china shops of the world, on his way to bully Rocket Man. Overnight here, a motorcyclist meets his deer finale on the vacant Henday. And Sunday waking up to a … Continue reading →

And they aren’t fiction or poetry. I’m thinking of the best book ever written on Canadian Literature called Survival and another called Negotiating with the Dead which presents her conclusions about writing and being a writer. I revisited the latter … Continue reading →

THOM-THOM-THOM steady, unrelenting from the car beside me at the light. And suddenly I want to tell him about Beethoven’s “Fifth” or Glenn Gould’s “Goldberg” that there are other beats and rhythms than monotone, other tones, sounds and voices than … Continue reading →

(why I travel to Butchart Gardens near Victoria as often as I can) “Flowers…are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson “How many undervalue the power of simplicity! But it … Continue reading →

This morning perky Suzanne was saying that “a low in the U.S. is pushing instability into Canada”. Must be thinking of the trade talks with Trump.

(a favorite preferred/projected (self-)image) The possibilities we dream of come truest in our imaginations. Occasionally we are lucky and some of these dreams transition to physical reality. Then they assume an even greater transformative power. It is also in our … Continue reading →

(my autographed copy) (The ending of Timebends, Arthur Miller’s autobiography. He concludes with an image of wolves on his Connecticut rural property.) “In the darkness out there they see my light and pause, muzzles lifted, wondering who I am and … Continue reading →

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”