Monthly Archives: February 2020

Aldous Huxley’s 1932 Brave New World narrated by Huxley with music by Bernard Herrmann of Citizen Kane and Psycho fame, CBS radio, 1956. Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray read by Hurd Hatfield who played Gray in the celebrated … Continue reading →

Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan woman leading an effort to plant 30 million trees in Africa. Jimmy Donaldson, launched a campaign to plant 20 million trees. Ethiopia, where 23 million people planted 350 million trees in a day.

With the passing of screen legend Kirk Douglas, it is time to go back and dust off his many classics including Spartacus, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Vikings, Lust for Life, Paths of Glory, and so many more … Continue reading →

I don’t believe in systems. Became disillusioned within and by them by 40. At which point, I reaffirmed my individuality and realized Hamlet’s “To thine own self be true” (the name of my blog) as my credo. Since then nothing … Continue reading →

Big Brother/Yeats’ rough beast in “The Second Coming” is entrenched for good in Washington. (He’s even threatening again to stay in the White House if he is voted out in November!) America has completely failed and succumbed. Canada killed itself … Continue reading →

Same old. Do something one moment and the universe sends it back to you in an uncanny “pay attention to me, to the connection” with the usual attached questions “What does this mean? What are the odds, frankly?” On a … Continue reading →

(First things first sometimes; another cold winter day several years ago for the Bird Man of Mill Woods: takin’ care of business; looking out for Nature has long been a priority even in the coldest conditions; though I am no … Continue reading →

Always been, always will be as long as it’s spelled that way. Another sign of ignorance much like “eck-cetera”. Whenever I hear those mispronounced words, I think “Here’s someone whose schooling and education was incomplete” and if they emphasize the … Continue reading →

(transitory fame vs. significant family connection) ……………………………………………………………………. cannot be trusted. Many good, fine individuals are simply not remembered, appreciated, or revered enough. Welles speaks of France’s forgetting Anatole France and Andre Malraux as well as Americans forgetting F. Scott Fitzgerald … Continue reading →

(The most dangerous unconventional individual is the fearless, self-actualized individual who is not afraid to speak out or speak his mind.) ………………………….. …it’s fear that recurrently and often rules and buggers up our lives, attitudes, and personal choices. To wit, … Continue reading →