Monthly Archives: September 2019

It All Comes Down to Words…

Sometimes a whole legal case can hang on one word like “though” as in the Trump phone call to Ukraine’s PM. Consider also the dangerous threat in Trump’s “Civil War-like fracture” threat in his weekend tweet. Words that sow even … Continue reading

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It is always incredibly hard to watch news about

the pain and suffering of animals and young children. If someone has no feeling about these two, then he or she is clearly unempathetic, unsympathetic, and likely lacking in Heart.

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E-Scooters in Edmonton

Downright dangerous on sidewalks. Bad enough these riders are not wearing helmets and sustaining head injuries: ‘doing it to themselves’. But worse that city council is opening the door for riders to mow down other people by illegally riding on … Continue reading

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Saint Frances de Sales:

(Victoria: Inn at Laurel Point) “Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.”

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Death and Beauty

(Constellation) Ever notice how beautiful flowers become, more brilliant and ‘full-out’ when the first frosts hit. Although they’re dying, they are then at their most beautiful and eloquent.

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A busy week into next week,

reading my poems at the Upper Crust CafĂ©. Today I am honoured to be the host for my doctors’/my wife’s and daughter’s employers’ Farewell Party. They are deservedly retiring and will be hard to replace. Great guys; I have been … Continue reading

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Trump bears close watching from his handlers

from now on during his long downhill impeachment descent. His mental illness was pretty obvious in his Last Hurrah speech last week as he, in the style of Shakespeare’s Richard II, proceeded to take himself apart in front of the … Continue reading

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If you haven’t heard,

it is now not likely that two things shall happen that Trump was angling for as recently as two weeks ago. 1. Him winning the Nobel Peace Prize which he felt he richly deserved after singlehandedly destroying and insulting so … Continue reading

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Trump’s Televised Public Meltdown on TV Speech Today

sounded like a pathetic, lying, dying Last Hurrah. “How can you impeach me?” “Everybody but the Dems love me” “But I’ve done so much good for America and the world”. ‘Twas like HAL in Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey taking … Continue reading

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Re. Young Children and Childhood

Childhood should remain an innocent, sacred time as long as possible (a la Blake and Wordsworth). It is a time for free rein of Imagination and Creativity: the key period in which kids learn to make things and express their … Continue reading

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