Monthly Archives: May 2021

And I my Robert Frost And we note our place with bookmarkersThat measure what we’ve lost” –Paul Simon, “The Dangling Conversation”

couched in our indifference like shells upon the shore. You can hear the ocean roar.” –Paul Simon, “The Dangling Conversation”

–Paul Simon

And I remember the city by dusk-colored lights in September,walking the streets withmyriad strangers,amazed at the stillnessof prairie all around us. We had come like mothsdrawn by this illuminationof night, curious and half-awake.I looked into your eyesand it was all … Continue reading →

Jesus of Montreal (1989) on DVD. French with English subtitles. (Adults only) Earnest young actor Daniel Coulombe is offered a chance by an older priest to revitalize an annual Passion Play with stations, performed at a Catholic church on Mount … Continue reading →

To pre-address a potential heart attack, put 2–81 mg aspirins in a pill case in your vehicle, by your bedside, and on the main floor of your house.

A drowsy fly trembled on the worn wooden window screen. The April breeze was cool and, looking down to the breaking ice on the river below, I wondered how many times both my cancer-stricken parents had stood there, by day … Continue reading →

“Oh, the glory of growth, silent, mighty, persistent, inevitable! To awaken, to open up like a flower to the light of a fuller consciousness!”–Emily Carr, “Hundreds and Thousands”. The Journals of Emily Carr What is it that makes ‘you’ uniquely … Continue reading →

E. M. Forster’s “Only connect” is probably the truest two-word statement ever uttered. And one can connect on many levels: between oneself and others, between one and nature, and between one and any work of art, be it film, book, … Continue reading →

“Infinite possibility is good, not bad.”-James Gleick, The Information “He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.”-John Donne