Monthly Archives: March 2020

when, at 6 pm today (Sunday), two small junior high-looking Asian girls with matching braces showed up at the door despite the Beware of Dog sign. They were doing charity work for the One organization to address world poverty, especially … Continue reading →

made obvious in 2 back-to-back news items on Global News this morning. 1/Tenants who just moved into low-cost housing have leaky roofs, declining infrastructure already, cockroaches, and other vermin. Kenny has cut funding to these people. The gap: 2/Meanwhile, a … Continue reading →

Henry (Pocket) Richard, 84. I can’t tell you how excited I was in 1956 to read my name x 2 in the sports pages: H. Richard, and M. Richard (The Rocket–his bro). It would be months after that, that I … Continue reading →

  our particularizing consciousness.” –Asvaghosa

–Okakura Kakuzo

Do not depend on others.” –Buddha

when you think it will never again be green and colors other than white. And then the renewing miracles of spring, summer, and fall.   “Seasons sew us like a thread.” –Richard Davies (from one of his songs)

Personally speaking, I’ve already mentioned, elsewhere in the blog, two very influential English male teachers in grades 11-12 who were funny and very much into literature; they were models and first revealed a potential career in teaching high school English, … Continue reading →

emerged amidst Beatlemania as the top instrumental group of the day. They had 69 charted singles (35 by themselves and another 34 with singer Cliff Richards whom they backed for a decade). Hank Marvin, the lead guitarist, played a terrific … Continue reading →