Monthly Archives: April 2020

No national testing policy and egging on the quarantine protesters into stupid, dangerous, socially irresponsible civil disobedience and breaking the law. Yesterday, though, his “beautiful” “gift from the heavens” which he had strongly endorsed repeatedly–the anti-malaria drug–was shown, by four … Continue reading →

The amazing Emily Dickinson who wrote the most compact metaphorical poetry in English. She showed that a woman writer needed no one else but her imagination to bless her own work. She is the supreme spirited poet of the dark … Continue reading →

(from the 1955 Johnson edition) first line number and poem number A narrow fellow in the grass–986 Because I could not stop for death–712 Before I got my eye put out–327 Dare you see a soul at the white heat?–365 … Continue reading →

“Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living. —Heart of Gold, Heart of Lead

Rejecting the d-hive paradigm and prevailing winds of “All’s right with the world”– the ear candy, grasshopper minds, vested interests, and lowest common denominator, my very free will transcends a cognitive dissonance and depressive realism, moves instead toward sweetness and … Continue reading →

Multiply this times other AB towns, Canadian towns and cities and you start to see the hit the economy is taking and will continue to take. It’s hard to imagine how sports venues will ever be full again and the … Continue reading →

While T refers to the coronavirus as the Asian or Wuhan virus trying to stir up racist sentiments among his crazy base, the fact of the matter is that Asians are heavily involved in health care systems everywhere as doctors, … Continue reading →

A 1936 signed copy. ……………………………………………………………. The first poet, whose work resonated for me, was Robert Frost in 1966. My artsy grade 11 English teacher read and illustrated two poems (“The Road Not Taken” and “Birches”) by drawing what they would … Continue reading →

of kids dying who would return to schools soon. Sick. The low no. of needless deaths makes it all ‘worthwhile’ and ‘profitable’, no doubt, to re-open. Doubly sick. The GOP and Fox crazies (Drs. Phil and Oz) are spilling out … Continue reading →

Many millions unemployed. And food lines for the public at large. What goes around comes around. You could say the same about COVID 19 and the Spanish flu world-wide event.