Monthly Archives: June 2019

“Don’t come! Don’t waste your money! Go somewhere else!” Don’t believe the misinformed National Geographic Summer Destination list. Edmonton is on the Closed for Business, Closed for Tourists, Closed for Locals lists. Downtown is officially closed. The only worthwhile visitor … Continue reading →

is the only real test of civilization.” –Arthur Helps

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” –from Hamlet

–Ibsen Indubitably true.

without at the same time being a profound philosopher.” -Coleridge Consciousness and thinking lead to/go hand in hand with poetry. There is always a mind and sensibility behind every serious poet. That much awareness, sensitivity, empathy, and imagination, too.

the universal language of mankind.” –Longfellow If there’s one thing that can unite diverse peoples…

“A true friend is one soul in two bodies.” –Aristotle

but solitude is the school of genius.” –Gibbon

“All cruelty springs from weakness.”–Seneca “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil.” –Isaiah, vol. 20 “Where there is no vision, the people perish.”–Proverbs XXIX, 18

The two 90+ year-old D-day vets parachuting in to Juno Beach. Nicely and appropriately done. What a triumph over time! Least inspiring: Trudeau and Trump speeches. Much ado by nothings.