Monthly Archives: December 2018

Every year at this time I break out my favorite Christmas CD–the diamond anniversary edition of Holiday Inn and White Christmas with songs by the great Irving Berlin. Warm memories of watching those movies annually with my parents on the … Continue reading →

Del’s last Christmas was in 1997. He had been diagnosed with cancer in September that year and the cancer and treatments had started to obviously ‘waste’ him, something I became aware of when I was in Winnipeg that November. I … Continue reading →

at Gatwick Airport. A major collision is bound to happen. Just a matter of time. In the meantime, drones continue to be a hot Xmas item in the absence of few restrictions. “Hey, buy a drone, bring down a plane. … Continue reading →

“He who loses his life shall find it.”–quoted by Joseph Campbell Two of the most inspiring Christmas movies ever are the Alistair Sim version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, and Frank Capra’s movie It’s a Wonderful Life. They have … Continue reading →

(Especially in Dry Winter Climes) A collapsible back-scratcher.

Bread warming up in a toaster. As well: even the lingering, leftover smell of heated toast crumbs.

Man’s inhumanity to man, women, children, animals, and Nature makes countless millions mourn. (The still-tragic side of Christmas, 2018)

“Life is a shower of ever-falling atoms of experience, not a narrative line. It is ‘luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.’” –Elizabeth Drew and “Virginia Woolf” Indeed, these fragments of experience … Continue reading →