Monthly Archives: December 2019

on a cold December morning is to unveil a frosty filigree etched on the window, and to recall Omar Sharif as Doctor Zhivago delighting to the same in David Lean’s film.

there are the crazy, absurd, unnecessary limits and limitations we place upon ourselves, never mind the ones we impose on others. Bad enough we do it to others without also doing it to ourselves.

The Grinch That Stole Alberta’s Christmas.

begins every first week of December. People move into high gear with concerts, coffees out, shopping, and decorating (outdoors and in). But amidst the madness will gradually emerge moments of kindness and generosity as well as many strangers who will … Continue reading →

“The window of time is closing.” (recommended viewing about the world’s top female scientist)

nutcases and crackpots like MacDonald at the U of A denying Holodomor.

the holy, holy sound of chorales singing church music on CD–human voices celebrating spiritual joy, peace, and quietude. (It’s on a par with the monks’ voices at Santo Domingo.) The voices of women and of children choirs are the best–truly … Continue reading →

Russian Assets. Putin Personnel. Soviet Lackeys. Red Flunkys.

“They intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.”–Aldous Huxley “Most people perform essentially meaningless work. When they retire, that truth is borne upon them.”–Brendan Francis “Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.”–Thomas Carlyle “There … Continue reading →

“Try to realize it’s all within yourself No one else can make you change And to see you’re really very small And life flows on Within you and without you.” –George Harrison, “Within You, Without You”