Monthly Archives: March 2020

Walter de la Mare’s “Someone came knocking at my wee small door” in elementary school. In gr.7, my last round of Halloween in Winnipeg, an adult put me on the spot insisting I perform a “trick” as in “Trick or … Continue reading →

The AB gov’t. paying a paltry 20 bucks per patient to drs. for giving coronavirus responses on the new app. Insulting. Only in Kenney World.

Giving grocery cashiers an extra toonie per hour for risking their lives. Appallingly cheap. An insult.

People losing it in lines or having to wait. Zero patience under the unprecedented circumstances: “I’m more important than the rest of youse.” Given the number of people who stocked up on guns (?!) south of the border, the U.S. … Continue reading →

Health-care workers, doctors, nurses, support and cleaning staff. Those who put their lives on the line for others as their continuing jobs.

Each day for me is a positive in still being me and alive. And with family and loved ones intact. That and as many friends well and intact, too. But each day for me is a tabula rasa of sorts … Continue reading →

Kenny Rogers, 81. “You’ve painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair…” –“Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town” “It wasn’t me that started that old crazy Asian war…” “It’s hard to love a man whose legs … Continue reading →

Looking back, I have many personal markers and signposts as do many people. My uncanny ability though, is to be able to recall pop songs by date and circumstances in which I first heard them. Often, too, how hearing those … Continue reading →

“Everything hinges upon our realizing the essential transitory possibilities.” –Viktor Frankl “Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities–always see them, for they are always there.” –Norman Vincent … Continue reading →

Marcus Aurelius: “The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.” Rene Descartes: “I think, therefore I am.” Antoine Arnauld: “Men are everywhere confronted with alternative routes–some true and others false–and reason must choose between them. Who … Continue reading →