Monthly Archives: December 2018

Christmas Eve

“Looking through my bedroom window, out into the moonlight and the unending smoke-coloured snow, I could see the lights in the windows of all the other houses on our hill and hear the music rising from them up the long, … Continue reading

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Season’s greeting

after the toasters the mints and scented soaps after the widescreens the gift cards and mugs after the oranges the laptops and socks after the Botox the iPhones and gold chains after the Lindor the Blu-rays and spiced teas after … Continue reading

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Inner-Child Blankets

(left: cozy soft blanket; right: coverlet on my bed)

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Behind These Fronts

We are all held together by wires or Wi-Fi. The props that hold us up can only be glimpsed in a certain slant of light. We are really coming apart all the time, even as we laugh and profess a … Continue reading

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At the Sobey’s and Safeway grocery stores here,

they make it so easy to pick up and donate food packages year-round to the Food Bank for only $5 or $10. Imagine the grateful unfortunates who will be happy to eat this Christmas. It doesn’t take that much to … Continue reading

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A Terrific, Largely-Forgotten Xmas Movie

The Bishop’s Wife, 1947, starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven with Monty Woolley and James Gleason in strong supporting charming roles. This is the tale of a bishop (Niven in one of his best-ever roles) who is obsessively … Continue reading

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“A Clear Midnight”

This is the hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best, Night, sleep, death and … Continue reading

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51 Years Ago: Just Before a Cold Winnipeg Xmas, 1967 AD

I remember buying this LP for myself in a doldrums period then and hunkering down to listen to great songs like “Changes”. And then Karen phoned me out of the blue, inviting me over to visit. It was the turning … Continue reading

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Nothing Like a Poinsettia

to brighten and express Christmas.

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“The people keep coming but the train has gone.”

–from “Mary Had a Baby”, a traditional Saint Helena carol adapted nicely by Bruce Cockburn on his interesting Christmas CD

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